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Public Image of Spain Based on Travel Literature Published in 17th - 18th c. England
Branda, Martin ; Klusáková, Luďa (advisor) ; Křížová, Markéta (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze and interpret English travel accounts from 17th and 18th century concerning Spain. One of the texts is original English work, while the other was translated from French. Both of them were available to the contemporary English reader. The thesis analyzes these travel accounts and aims to define the image of Spain and its inhabitants, based on the data from both works. The main goal of this thesis is then to reconstruct the mental map of each traveller, based on the method of cognitive mapping. At the same time, the perceiving of the space, border and the concrete rating of places visited, is also stressed. The next objective of this work is to compare both travel accounts, or propose two different views of Spain during a given time span. Keywords: Image of Spain, travel accounts, Catherine Aulnoy, Robert Southey, mental map
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