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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... social groupings, from the élite to the marginalized, and not infrequently articulated the interests or grievances of those who had no direct voice in the public arena. 35 The reader might be struck by the absence of poetry from the ...
... social ease ' ( 1. 241 ) . Goldsmith's stereotypes echo and are in turn echoed by countless prose travel writers . Especially from the 1760s onwards , however , Goldsmith's evocation of a mysterious solitary wanderer dominates the ...
... social tie ... Ferments arise , imprisoned factions roar , Repressed ambition struggles round her shore , Till over - wrought , the general system feels Its motions stopped or frenzy fire the wheels . ( 11. 339-48 ) 41 English ...
... social or territorial boundaries drawn to distinguish the collective self and its implicit negation , the other.'54 Langford observes that ' Much of the success of Britishness derived from the way in which it offered a layer of identity ...
... social and political perspectives, and bring into sharp focus the extent to which accounts of 'abroad' replay domestic controversies. They also intensify the problematic relationship between the individual subject and the nation, which ...
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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 | |
Epilogue | |
Bibliography | |
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