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The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850-1901 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850-1901 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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This book brings together theories of spatiality and mobility with
a study of travel writing in the Victorian period to suggest that
'idleness' is an important but neglected condition of subjectivity
in that era. Contrary to familiar stereotypes of 'the Victorians'
as characterized by speed, work, and mechanized travel, this books
asserts a counter-narrative in which certain writers embraced
idleness in travel as a radical means to 're-subjectification' and
the assertion of a 'late-Romantic' sensibility. Attentive to the
historical and literary continuities between 'Romantic' and
'Victorian', the book reconstructs the Victorian discourse on
idleness. It draws on an interdisciplinary range of theorists and
brings together a fresh selection of accounts viewed through the
lens of cultural studies as well as accounts of publication history
and author biography. Travel texts from different genres (by
writers such as Anna Mary Howitt, Jerome K. Jerome and George
Gissing) are brought together as representing the different facets
of the spectrum of idleness in the Victorian context.
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