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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... Monthly Review in 1766 , ' for in all places on the continent , which are frequented by strangers , we find the number of Englishmen greatly to exceed that of all other nations taken together'.1 Thirty years later , the Critical Review ...
... Review. Baretti's Journey from London to Genoa in 1770 receives almost thirty pages of coverage in the Monthly Review (spread over three months), and almost forty in the Critical. As so often with reviews of travelogues, appraisal of ...
... Monthly Review observes that there are ' but few books of this kind , in proportion to the number of travellers ' , and explains that ' The reason is plain : our travellers are in general young men of fortune , and are led by their ...
... Monthly Review (MR), 34 (1766), 420. 2 Critical Review (CR), NS 19 (1797), 361. 3 CR, NS 5 (1792), 294. 4 Malcolm Andrews, The Search for the Picturesque: Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism in Britain, 1760–1800 (1989; repr. Aldershot ...
... Reviews , but also by the twenty - five or so multivolume collections of voyages and travels which appeared during the eighteenth century . In 1777 , the Monthly Review pronounces one such collection , the Modern Traveller , ' well ...
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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 | |
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