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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... cultural factors such as the rise of middle-class leisure and consumerism, and a burgeoning interest in Britain's own historic attractions and picturesque resources: for many Britons after 1760, travelling around their own nation ...
... cultural consensus at home , but rather in reaction to the Other beyond their shores'.12 Both Colley and Gerald Newman acknowledge the prime importance of the European ' other ' , especially the untrustworthy and decadent French and the ...
... cultural and political superiority. Elizabeth Bohls's investigation into Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics 1716–1818 (Cambridge, 1995) to some extent carries on Mills's exploration of discourse and difference, with ...
... cultural fashions ; and the active role of literature ( both ' high ' and ' popular ' ) in helping to construct ' imagined communities ' of gender , class and nation has been firmly established.22 Furthermore , the rapid growth of the ...
... cultural survey of The Evolution of the Grand Tour : Anglo - Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance ( 1998 ) asserts in a slightly cavalier tone that ' There can surely be few topics more worthy of study than the history of ...
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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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