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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... manner ) the tendency of Enlightenment philosophers and historians to downplay national differences in favour of European cosmopolitanism . Gibbon , for instance , announces that it is ' the duty of the patriot to prefer and promote the ...
... manners and customs rather than classical sites) is still a useful guide, and one of the few works to address eighteenth-century travel writing – on Europe as well as further afield – as a distinct literary form. But Batten's valuable ...
... manners and customs are overlaid with comparative discussions of affairs at home . Although few if any travel narratives fail , in the final analysis , to prefer Britain to the Continent , many nevertheless exploit the genre's potential ...
... Manners in France ( 2 vols , 1779 ) , i . 399–400 . Similarly , the Critical Review in 1793 cites the anonymous author of A Comparative Sketch of England and Italy , with Disquisitions on National Clark , Travel Writing and Empire , 1 . 51.
... Manners in France , Switzerland , and Germany ' , in Poems ( 1786 ) , 8 ; 12 ( lines unnumbered ) . 41 Published in The Royal Magazine for June , July and September , 1760. See Arthur Friedman ed . , The Collected Works of Oliver ...
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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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