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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... Sentimental Journey , Smollett's Travels through 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 ...
... Sentimental Journey and Wollstonecraft's Letters from Scandinavia , for instance ) frequently go unnoticed . As Steve Clark has recently argued , the force of travel writing in any given period actually works against the critical ...
... sentimental fiction 'consciously participated in some of the most keenly ... sentimental novel envisaged a readership (largely female and nonproperty- owning) who ... Journey from London to Genoa in 1770 receives almost thirty pages of ...
... Sentimental Journey as ' young gentlemen transported by the cruelty of parents and guardians ' ) actually published accounts of their travels.45 Lord Chesterfield , writing to his son at Rome , remarks that ' Your studies , the ...
... Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick ( 1768 ) , ed . Gardner D. Stout , Jr ( Berkeley and Los Angeles , 1967 ) , 79 . 46 47 Lord Chesterfield , Letters to his Son and Others , ed . R. K. Root ( 1929 ; repr . 1986 ) ...
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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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