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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... present book. Others to whom I owe thanks for their time, advice and encouragement are Marilyn Butler, Steve Clark, David Fairer, Julia Griffin, Nick Groom, Rohini Jayatilaka, Sian Lewis, Clare Morgan, Francis O'Gorman, David Omissi ...
... present investigation . Of particular relevance are developments such as the rise of middle - class tourism and commercial authorship as mutually enabling factors , and the role of print culture within the formulation of national ...
... presents , however , too homogeneous a picture of ' Europe ' for the purposes of describing the literature of inter ... present more unexpected perspectives on ' abroad ' , and frequently provide a critique of the illusory domestic ...
... present a partial view.49 The non- ( frequently , indeed , anti- ) aristocratic flavour of much eighteenth - century travel writing can hardly be stressed too much . In this respect , the eighteenth century is not unusual : Steve Clark ...
... present various energetic assertions of national and authorial masculinity. Not surprisingly, formulations of ... presents particular problems for the small but significant number of women travel writers who begin to publish travel ...
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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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