Primary text: John Mandeville
Mandeville’s
Travels. Ed. M. C . Seymour. Oxford: 1967.
*Iain Macleod
Higgins. Writing East: The ‘Travels’ of Sir John Mandeville, U
Pennsylvania:
1997. (probably over-complicated, but worth skipping through).
Travels
of Sir John Mandeville tr. C. W. R. D. Moseley. Penguin: 1983.
*Greenblatt,
Stephen, Marvelous Possessions: the Wonder of the New World.
Chicago, 1991, ch. 2
Zacher,
Christian K., Curiosity and Pilgrimage; the Literature of Discovery
in
Fourteenth-Century England. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press,
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Howard,
Donald R. 'The World of Mandeville’s Travels', Yearbook of English
Studies
1 (1971) 1-17.
Mary B. Campbell, The Witness and
the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing 400-1600,
Cornell UP, 1988: pp. 122-64.
Geraldine Heng, Empire of Magic:
Medieval Romances and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy, Columbia
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Compare
Cleanness,
(in Andrew and Waldron)
The
Travels of Marco Polo, tr. R. Latham. Penguin: 1958.
Floris
and Blancheflor ed. A. B. Taylor, OUP: 1927.
or in D.
Sands (ed.) Middle English Verse Romances, Exeter: 1988.
P.E. Grieve,
Floire et Blancheflor and European Romance. CUP: 1997.
Margery
Kempe
Edward Said,
Orientalism Penguin: 1995.
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