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British Travel Writers in Europe 1750-1800 - Authorship, Gender, and National Identity (Hardcover)
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British Travel Writers in Europe 1750-1800 - Authorship, Gender, and National Identity (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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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
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