THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE IN FRENCH LITERATURE BEFORE 1700.

8vo. xiii + 189pp. Original cloth with gitl title to spine. Studies in Romance Philology and Literature, Number 26. bibliografia bibliography travel viaggi voyages imaginaires. The term Extraordinary Voyage is used in the present study to designate a novel of the following type: A fictitious narrative purporting to be the veritable account of a real voyage made by one or more Europeans to an existent but little known country - or to several such countries - together with a description of the happy condition of society there found, and a supplementary account of the travelers' return to Europe. By the terms of this definition the Extraordinary Voyage is an imaginary one.It is intended in this study to treat the Extraordinary Voyages before 1700 both as individual productions and as a group of novels. The first attempts in the direction of this type of novel will be studied in the early part of the 17th century. In addition to considering the philosophical and utopian content of each, the three complete novels of the type published before 1700 will be treated as novels, and the sources of realism in each will be traced to accounts of real voyages of earlier date. " - from the introduction. Contents; Preface; Introduction; I. Descriptions of Real Voyages; II. Imaginary Realms Before 1675; III. Precursors of the Extraordinary Voyage; IV. La Terre Australe Connue of Gabriel Foigny; V. L'histoire des SÈvarambes of Denis Vairasse d'Alais; VI. A Political Satire and Two Translations; VII. Les Aventures de TÈlÈmaque of FÈnelon; Conclusions; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.