1st: travel literature attained its peak influence from 16th to 18th century, indicating the ambiguous of forth the west to world domination. However, this public doesn't have discrimination on it. It's better when mingled fact with fantacy
2nd: when England isolated from other civilization, travel literature hit its peak. The public devoured both book and poetry from P. but it will ruin the poetry in the guise of reason, truth and fact. The borderline is blurred.
生词:
vicariously 担任代理者地;间接感受到地
called forth 引起
indiscriminate 不加选择的
skeptical reserve 持怀疑态度的储备
facts were mingled with fantasy 事实与幻想交织在一起
missionary propaganda 传教宣传
light reading 轻松阅读:容易阅读的东西,通常指不需要太多思考或专业知识的书籍或文章
retaliation of proscribed fantasy 对被禁幻想的报复
proscribed 禁止的