British Travel Writers in Europe, 1750-1800: Authorship, Gender, and National IdentityAshgate, 2001 - 276 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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... European friends during the ensuing years , but not in France . The period 1778-83 sees a large number of publications on parts of Europe beyond the now stale itineraries of France and Italy . Travel literature of the 1780s and 1790s is ...
... France and Italy describes the travels and residence abroad of Lady Phillipina Knight and her daughter , Ellis Cornelia , who later wrote serious historical and topographical accounts of Rome , France , and Spain . The Knights , like ...
... France ; made in the Autumn of 1789. Illustrated with Copper - Plates in Aquatinta from Drawings made on the Spot ... Italy , 1776-1795 , ed . Lady Eliott - Drake ( 1905 ) . Lascelles , Rowley , Sketch of a Descriptive Journey through ...
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The world the texts and the critics | 21 |
Class character and controversy in the 1760s and 1770s | 55 |
so much the ton | 86 |
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