Curiosity and the aesthetics of travel-writing, 1770-1840: 'from an antique land'

Introduction : practices and narratives of romantic travel

Cycles of accumulation, aesthetics of curiosity, and temporal exchange

Curious narrative and the problem of credit : James Bruce's Travels to discover the source of the Nile

"Young Memnon" and romantic Egyptomania

Indian travel writing and the imperial picturesque

Domesticating distance : three women travel writers in British India

Alexander von Humboldt and the romantic imagination of America : the impossibility of personal narrative

Conclusion : William Bullock's Mexico and the reassertion of "popular curiosity."