British Travel Writers in Europe 1750-1800: Authorship, Gender, and National IdentityRoutledge, 1 de nov. 2017 - 284 pàgines This title was first published in 2001: Hundreds of European travelogues produced by British travellers between 1750 and 1800 remain out of sight in most libraries and have generally been out of print since the 18th century. While many people with a working knowledge of the 18th century are familiar with works including Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey" and Smollett's "Travels through France and Italy", those produced by less "literary" travellers are largely unknown. This study aims to recreate the world of 18th-century travel writing in order to illuminate its central role in shaping Britain's emerging sense of national identity - an identity which proves to be more complex an less homogeneous than some cultural and historical studies would suggest. The author finds that the developing discourse of national character is bound up with questions of gender: national and authorial virtue are projected in terms of appropriately gendered behaviour, for male and female travel writers alike. In turn, gender intersects with class, most obviously in the tendency to denigrate aristocratic travellers as effeminate and celebrate the more manly activities of the middle-class traveller. These then - national identity, authorship and gender - are the central preoccupations of the study |
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... Britain's emerging sense of national identity - an identity , moreover , which proves to be more complex and less homogeneous than some recent cultural and historical studies would suggest . The concept of ' authorship ' is important to ...
... Britain, 1760–1800 (1989) is a wide-ranging and impressive account of the rise of recreational travel within Britain, which Andrews relates not only to practical contingencies such as the difficulty of foreign travel abroad during times ...
... Britain , along with much impertinence and scurrility , such a regard for the constitution , such a sense of the rights of the subject , and such a degree of general knowledge , as never were so universally diffused over any other ...
... Britain and much of its empire , including America ' ( xi ) . However , as Ian Christie has pointed out , the Grand Tour was ' an experience undergone by only a small minority , and it was becoming less fashionable after the accession ...
... Britain, 1760–1800 (1989; repr. Aldershot, 1990), 73–6. 5 The term 'congeneric forms' is Peter Hulme's, and has proved particularly congenial to the discourse of travel; see, for example, Sara Mills, Discourses of Difference: an ...
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Class character and controversy in the 1760s and 1770s | |
so much the ton | |
The rise of the woman travel writer | |
the 1790s | |
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