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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... anonymous reader for Ashgate made a number of extremely helpful suggestions at an important stage. All errors, of course, I acknowledge as my own. However, my family – travellers all – must share some of the blame for fostering an ...
... anonymous ' Gentlemen ' . The genre's relaxed formal requirements no doubt contributed to its popularity amongst amateurs . By 1792 , the Critical Review could pronounce that Travels are a species of writing which , besides being ...
... anonymous ' Verses On a Journey from Rome to Leghorn ' printed in the Universal Magazine ( 1793 ) , and ( albeit transferred to a different location ) ' Verses supposed to have been written in the Isle of Cyprus , by the Rev J. Banister ...
... 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.
... anonymous writers are empowered to forge an authorial identity. The public literary arena, especially as supervised by the Monthly and Critical Reviews, is influential in accommodating and even encouraging the cheerful proliferation of ...
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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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