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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... travellers all – must share some of the blame for fostering an interest in eighteenth-century travel writing. Finally, Roland Kozlowski has made possible the writing of this book in countless ways. A version of the section on Montagu ...
... travellers between 1750 and 1800 remain out of sight in most libraries , and have generally been out of print since the eighteenth century . This neglect is due partly to the ambivalent status of the genre ( is it really ' literature ...
... 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 ensuing study . The remainder of this ...
... travellers must here be conceded. The handful of pirate narratives put together from the oral accounts of illiterate ... traveller's bosom in the following decades; countless prose travel writers, overtly or implicitly, cite from and ...
... traveller's extensive European wanderings , emphasizing that ' Where'er I roam , whatever realms to see , / My heart untravelled fondly turns to thee ' ( 11. 7-8 ) . The brother's firmly domestic location ( ' all the ruddy family around ...
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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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