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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... travelogues produced by less famous , less ' literary ' British 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 ...
... travelogues of the period , which offer a wealth of insights into British identity and its discontents during the formative years with which this study is concerned . ' The English are beyond all doubt the greatest travellers in the ...
... travelogues took the form of letters or a journal , and could therefore be ' worked up ' for publication with minimal effort , especially since the genre's evolving conventions came to associate apparent artlessness with authenticity ...
... travelogues and novels as 'eighteenth-century women's aesthetic writing' (10). Her critique is an illuminating one, but does not furnish a satisfactory account of travel writing as a cultural and political force. The same can be said of ...
... travelogues during the later part of the century , observes in 1779 that the ' unrestrained productions ' of the press have ' conveyed to every corner of Great Britain , along with much impertinence and scurrility , such a regard for ...
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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 | |
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