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The nineteenth century was the heyday of travel, with Britons
continually reassessing their own culture in relation to not only
the colonized but also other Europeans, especially the ones that
they encountered on the southern and eastern peripheries of the
continent. Offering illustrative case studies, Katarina Gephardt
shows how specific rhetorical strategies used in contemporary
travel writing produced popular fictional representations of
continental Europe in the works of Ann Radcliffe, Lord Byron,
Charles Dickens, and Bram Stoker. She examines a wide range of
autobiographical and fictional travel narratives to demonstrate
that the imaginative geographies underpinning British ideas of
Europe emerged from the spaces between fact and fiction. Adding
texture to her study are her analyses of the visual dimensions of
cross-cultural representation and of the role of evolving
technologies in defining a shared set of rhetorical strategies.
Gephardt argues that British writers envisioned their country
simultaneously as distinct from the Continent and as a part of
Europe, anticipating the contradictory British discourse around
European integration that involves both fear that the European
super-state will violate British sovereignty and a desire to play a
more central role in the European Union.
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