title: A Dialogue among Genres during the Late Eighteenth Century: Conjectural History and Travellers' Textual and Visual Representations of Cultures of the Near East and India
abstract: This dissertation explores the part played by historical frameworks of thought in the interpretation and representation of unfamiliar cultures. Examining works produced by British travellers to the Near East and India during the period of the Scottish Enlightenment, I argue that a significant and reciprocal relationship was found among the genres of historical writing and travellers' textual and visual representations of distant societies during the late eighteenth century. With social change ac