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The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination (Hardcover, New)
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The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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Carl Thompson explores the romance that can attach to the notion of
suffering in travel, and the importance of the persona of
'suffering traveller' in the Romantic self-fashionings of figures
such as Wordsworth and Byron. Situating such self-fashionings in
the context of the upsurge of tourism in the late eighteenth
century, he shows how the Romantics sought to differentiate
themselves from mere tourists by following alternative models, and
alternative travel 'scripts', in both their travelling and their
travel writing. In a rejection of the more conventional roles of
picturesque tourist and Grand Tourist, Romantic travellers often
preferred to style themselves as heroic explorers, oppressed and
endangered mariners, even shipwreck victims. The Suffering
Traveller and the Romantic Imagination accordingly returns to the
sub-genres of Romantic-era travel writing - the shipwreck
narrative, the exploration narrative, the captivity narrative, and
the like - that first kindled the Romantic fascination with these
figures, to consider the travel scripts seemingly enabled by this
source material. Paying particular attention to the narratives of
shipwreck and maritime suffering that were a hugely popular part of
Romantic-era print culture, and to the equally popular narrative of
exploration, the book considers firstly the examples, traditions,
and conventions that trained Romantic travellers to think that
misadventure as much as adventure could be a route to visionary
experience and literary authority. It then explores the political
resonance that the figure of the suffering traveller could possess
in this Revolutionary era, before treating Wordsworth and Byron as
especially influential examples of the 'misadventurous' tendency in
Romanticism. In so doing, The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic
Imagination offers interesting new perspectives not only on British
Romanticism and on travel writing of the Romantic era, but also on
many attitudes, practices, and typologies still current in travel
and tourism.
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