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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... contexts for the present investigation . Of particular relevance are developments such as the rise of middle - class tourism and commercial authorship as mutually enabling factors , and the role of print culture within the formulation ...
... context , and a proper sense of how representative or innovative they really are . The tendency to focus on a few ... contexts . Given the paucity of data from lending libraries at this time , and the general difficulty of constructing ...
... contexts and strategies of the genre, which actually open up spaces for the articulation of rather more divergent perspectives (related to class, gender, and religion, for example) than the monolithic model of the imperial nation would ...
... contexts proposed here . ( Furthermore , Pratt's evidence for reception derives from a limited range of sources , rather than the detailed textual world which this study aims to recreate . ) Historians before and after Pratt have ...
... contexts , despite the fact that since Pleasurable Instruction appeared eighteenth - century studies have undergone enormous changes . The rediscovery of work by women and other marginalized writers has enabled a significant ...
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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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