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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... increasingly easy and rewarding for both amateur and professional writers to publish , the term ' author ' - whether denoting a permanent occupation or an occasional alias - conferred upon a diverse body of men and women the status of ...
... increasingly projected in terms of appropriately gendered behaviour , for male and female travel writers alike . In turn , gender frequently intersects with class , most obviously in the increasing tendency to denigrate aristocratic ...
... increasingly lucrative market , but seem also to have been activated by the opportunity which publication provided for a voice in the discussion of national affairs . Thus , British accounts of Europe and their ' congeneric ' forms , or ...
... increasingly potent force in the life of public opinion, and especially in the various reform movements (for example, antislavery) which came to occupy a central position in politics and culture. The sentimental novel thus 'effectively ...
... increasingly tend to stress their isolation , even when their journeys were actually undertaken in company . John Moore and Joseph Baretti , for example , both travelled as tutors to young gentlemen , but neither mentions this in his ...
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1787 | |
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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