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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... poem. Yet Goldsmith seems to have inspired few if any significant or widely popular poetic accounts of Continental Europe in the second half of the century, especially in comparison to the amount of topographical or picturesque verse ...
... poem ' , of which Thomson's 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 ...
... poem's speaker , the structure of Goldsmith's poem is disorientating . The survey of European nations which occupies the central sections of the poem might be expected to make way for a climactic celebration of English liberty - as ...
... Poems , by Several Hands ( 4 vols , 1748–9 ) . 38 Universal Magazine , 93 ( 1793 ) , 68 ; GM , 63 ( 1793 ) , 358-9 . 39 Samuel Jackson Pratt , Gleanings through Wales , Holland and Westphalia ( 3 vols , 1795 ) , ii . 112 ; iii . 275 ...
... Poets have given us of it.16 As one might expect from the future Spectator writer, Addison also pays some attention to 'manners', but in a curiously schematic and unobservant fashion. He commends Italian sobriety and the airy humour of ...
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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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