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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... journal - keeping equipment available to the eighteenth - century tourist , including ( by the 1780s ) notebooks with blank pages divided into columns for dates , place - names , and ' observations ' . Virtually all eighteenth - century ...
... journals devoted to travel literature far exceeded their interest in fiction. While novels received comparatively ... journals came to play an actively prescriptive rather than simply a mediating role in the genre's evolution. Arguably ...
... journals on a regular basis. 33 The notion of a reading public is of course central to a study of this nature, and the continuing invisibility of non-literate travellers must here be conceded. The handful of pirate narratives put ...
... journals and imaginative fiction - was extensive . Even if it was not widely read in its original format ( generally heavy and expensive quartos , often sponsored by institutions such as the Admiralty , in Cook's case , or the Society ...
... which opens with a compilation of extant writings on Corsica before proceeding to Boswell's own Journal of his visit , and the biographical Memoirs of Pascal Paoli . Johnson , always alert to the preferences of the common reader , favoured.
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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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