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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... eighteenth - century literate people's view of the world and England's place in it'.14 Such formulations , however , assume a homogeneity which in practice did not exist : for although one might expect eighteenth - century travel ...
... eighteenth century, where, as this study will show, class as well as gender destabilizes the discursive structures of British cultural and political superiority. Elizabeth Bohls's investigation into Women Travel Writers and the Language ...
... eighteenth - century studies have undergone enormous changes . The rediscovery of work by women and other marginalized writers has enabled a significant reorientation of the canon ; research into the commodification of culture and the ...
... eighteenth-century genre, Markman Ellis has recently demonstrated how sentimental fiction 'consciously participated in some of the most keenly contested public controversies of the late eighteenth century', both through direct reference ...
... Eighteenth- century travel writing, then, remains predominantly a middle-class form. However, it was authored by and addressed to a wide range of social groupings, from the élite to the marginalized, and not infrequently articulated the ...
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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 | |
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