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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... France and Italy , the Scottish tours of Johnson and Boswell , and ( especially in recent years ) Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden , Norway and Denmark , the hundreds of European travelogues ...
... European ' other ' , especially the untrustworthy and decadent French and the Catholic bugbear represented by both France and Italy , in this process . And Margaret Hunt has emphasized the role of published material , pointing out that ...
... Italy is the land of ' sensual bliss ' ( 1. 124 ) and decadence , Switzerland of primitive valour but also moral backwardness , and France the ' gay sprightly land of mirth and social ease ' ( 1. 241 ) . Goldsmith's stereotypes echo and ...
... France and Italy blindfold'.48 Some such tutors , however , were better educated than this jibe would suggest , and some of the most accomplished eighteenth- century travelogues ( by Patrick Brydone and John Moore , for instance ) are ...
... France and Italy ( 1766 ) as ' a man of a true English character ' , which he defines as ' soon tired of impertinence , and much subject to fits of disgust'.53 In general within the discourses of eighteenth - century travel , ' English ...
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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 | |
Epilogue | |
Bibliography | |
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