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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... Travel writing - the most consistently popular genre of the eighteenth century - likewise played a central role in developing formulations of national identity and comparative constitutional awareness.26 Kathleen Wilson has recently ...
... fiction 'consciously participated in some of the most keenly contested ... fiction made them an increasingly potent force in the life of public opinion, and ... travel writing (which shares many formal features and idioms with the ...
... narratives put together from the oral accounts of illiterate sailors, and the case of John Macdonald the footman, are rare records of lower- class travel, which serve really to highlight the difficulty of recuperating such experiences ...
... travel writing of the period : between individual and national identity , patriotism and dissidence , travel and domestic yearning.43 It is not until Wordsworth's Prelude that ... travel narratives from the eighteenth century are actually.
Authorship, Gender, and National Identity Katherine Turner. few published travel narratives from the eighteenth century are actually products of the aristocratic Grand Tour . This cultural phenomenon continues to exert a strange ...
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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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