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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... Travel Writing and Empire: Postcolonial Theory in Transit, ed. Steve Clark (1999). I am grateful to the editor for permission to reuse this material. Introduction This book offers an archaeology of a genre which Acknowledgements.
... genre which , although culturally preeminent in its day , has fallen victim to the vagaries of canon - building . While most people with a working knowledge of the eighteenth century are familiar with , say , Sterne's A Sentimental ...
... 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 particularly easy in point of ...
... 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 concede. Recent correctives to ...
... genre for the articulation of views shaped as much by specificities of gender , class , profession , religion , and region as by national consensus present more unexpected perspectives on ' abroad ' , and frequently provide a critique ...
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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 | |
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