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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... liberty which closes A Letter from Italy. This is to become a commonplace of travel writing; but in prose accounts it comes under increasing scrutiny, whereas verse responses to Continental travel more often adhere to the simplistic ...
... Liberty , Gray's ' The Progress of Poesy ' , and Collins's ' Liberty : an Ode ' are perhaps the best - known midcentury examples ) . Addison's alliance of classical Roman and British virtue , in opposition to modern Continental ...
... liberty - as indeed is the case in Goldsmith's own , earlier essay , A Comparative View of Races and Nations.11 But such a celebration is conspicuous by its absence . This is no doubt due to the dubious resonances of the very term ' liberty ...
... liberty as opposed to allegedly pernicious ' Scottish ' influence was loudly proclaimed . However , the vehemence of this separatist rhetoric of the 1760s underlines the extent to which , outside the immediate context of political ...
... liberty, both xenophobic and sentimental travel narratives mobilize the powerful discourse of masculinity in order to bolster their claims to moral and political virtue. Aristocratic travellers are ubiquitously denigrated as 'effeminate ...
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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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