British Travel Writers in Europe 1750-1800

Authorship, Gender, and National Identity

Katherine Turner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

284 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-70217-2 (ISBN)

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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

Katherine Turner

Introduction; 1: The world, the texts and the critics; 2: Class, character and controversy in the 1760s and 1770s; 3: Sentimental travels: ‘so much the ton ’; 4: The rise of the woman travel writer; 5: Revolution and revision: the 1790s; 6: Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	30.10.2017
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 234 mm
Gewicht	690 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-70217-X / 113870217X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-70217-2 / 9781138702172
Zustand	Neuware