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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... Britain and its Other ' . 16 Tim Youngs , in Travellers in Africa : British Travelogues , 1850–1900 ( Manchester , 1994 ) , 6 , observes that ' Studies which assume an undifferentiated imperial centre are guilty of creating the very ...
... Britain from 1689 to 1815 ( 1994 ) , 128–64 ; 136–7 . 28 Anderson , Imagined Communities , 7 . 29 Markman Ellis , The Politics of Sensibility : Race , Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel ( Cambridge , 1996 ) , 8 . 30 See also ...
... Britain . So , while the peace made Continental travel physically more feasible , victory rendered it patriotically enjoyable . Travellers of the ' middling sort ' explored France and the Low Countries in increasing numbers , and those ...
... Britain's European sympathies is dramatically reorientated . In 1778 , France joined the American rebels , and war was declared . Between then and the 1783 Treaty of Versailles , as with the earlier period of the Seven Years War , 1756 ...
... Britain and newly interesting countries . Particularly in the wake of the French alliance with America , which profoundly disorientates international affinities , travel writers give voice to the British public's interest in redefining ...
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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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