Nicolas Klimius, Pierre Wilkins et Édouard Alfrède – quelle définition du voyageur?
Nicholas Klimius, Peter Wilkins and Édouard Alfrède – a Definition of Traveller

Author(s): Stanisław Świtlik
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: imaginary travel; Ludvig Holberg; Robert Paltock; Giacomo Casanova
Summary/Abstract: The existence of travellers in the 18th-century reality encourages to search the definition of their characters. Three examples of literary imaginary travels help to define the traveller who becomes an explorer, a master of a new land. The article is an attempt to show to which extend the definition of an usurper, a “providential man” and of a conqueror are relevant to the travels to the unknown lands by Nicholas Klimius, Peter Wilkins and Édouard Alfrède.

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