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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... ideological controversy upon which the discourse of travel exercised a significant and widely felt influence , an influence further extended through the energetic reviewing arena of the day . Hence , the following study aims to recreate ...
... ideological functions, serving to conceal as well as to reveal existing historical realities, and indirectly illuminating certain contradictions inherent in eighteenth-century society'.9 Likewise shedding light on the class politics of ...
... ideological foundations of that discourse (which required ruined landscapes, picturesque peasants, and vulnerable females as its objects of contemplation), and to assert alternative modes of perception and social relationship ...
... ideological discomfort is adumbrated within Goldsmith's poem , within which tonal and political complexities highlight the problems faced by travellers as they negotiate the relationship between personal and national identity . Quite ...
... ideological outlines of the genre will be mapped , and where the intersection of class with gender in national constructions will be described . Here also the discourse of English eccentricity or ' originality ' will require analysis ...
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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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