Jean-Stéphane Messiani, Les Journaux de voyage de James Cook dans le Pacifique

Jean-Stéphane Massiani’s work offers an exhaustive study of Cook’s Journals. The introduction situates the Journals in their geopolitical and cultural context, in the Age of Enlightenment, notably with the notion of the Noble Savage. It underlines that the book will examine the Journals and their r...

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Veröffentlicht: Miranda 2016
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Zusammenfassung:Jean-Stéphane Massiani’s work offers an exhaustive study of Cook’s Journals. The introduction situates the Journals in their geopolitical and cultural context, in the Age of Enlightenment, notably with the notion of the Noble Savage. It underlines that the book will examine the Journals and their relationship with travel literature—a genre analysed by Jean Viviès— as well as the relationships between Cook’s Journals and the versions published by the Admiralty.The first part “L’Océan, l’Homme...