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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
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
Disrupting the common assumption that the Victorians regarded their
eighteenth-century predecessors with little interest or with
disdain, the essays in The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century
propose a re-examination of these relationships. Together, they
expose some of the significant and complex ways in which key
aspects and texts of the eighteenth century were situated, read,
and transacted within the post-Romantic nineteenth century.
Individual essays examine the influence of the work of Pope and the
eighteenth-century novelists such as Johnson, Chatterton, and
Rousseau on a range of Victorian writers and cultural productions,
including Dickens, Eliot, Oliphant, Ruskin, historical fiction,
late Victorian art criticism, The English Men of Letters series,
and the Oxford English Dictionary. The contributors challenge
long-held views about Victorian uses of the past, and offer new
insights into how the literature and culture of the eighteenth
century helped shape the culture and identity of the nineteenth.
This collection of essays by an impressive array of scholars, with
a Preface by David Fairer, represents a unique approach to this
area of literary history and offers new perspectives on the nature
and methodology of 'periodization'. While it is obviously of great
interest to students of eighteenth-century and Victorian
literature, it will also appeal to readers more broadly concerned
with questions of literary influence, periodization, and
historiography.
Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary
fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.
Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary
fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.
Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary
fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.
Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary
fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.
Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary
fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.
These exhuberant stories of intrigue and scandal paint a vivid and
colourful picture of society life.
These exhuberant stories of intrigue and scandal paint a vivid and
colourful picture of society life.
These exhuberant stories of intrigue and scandal paint a vivid and
colourful picture of society life.
These exhuberant stories of intrigue and scandal paint a vivid and
colourful picture of society life.
Disrupting the common assumption that the Victorians regarded their
eighteenth-century predecessors with little interest or with
disdain, the essays in The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century
propose a re-examination of these relationships. Together, they
expose some of the significant and complex ways in which key
aspects and texts of the eighteenth century were situated, read,
and transacted within the post-Romantic nineteenth century.
Individual essays examine the influence of the work of Pope and the
eighteenth-century novelists such as Johnson, Chatterton, and
Rousseau on a range of Victorian writers and cultural productions,
including Dickens, Eliot, Oliphant, Ruskin, historical fiction,
late Victorian art criticism, The English Men of Letters series,
and the Oxford English Dictionary. The contributors challenge
long-held views about Victorian uses of the past, and offer new
insights into how the literature and culture of the eighteenth
century helped shape the culture and identity of the nineteenth.
This collection of essays by an impressive array of scholars, with
a Preface by David Fairer, represents a unique approach to this
area of literary history and offers new perspectives on the nature
and methodology of 'periodization'. While it is obviously of great
interest to students of eighteenth-century and Victorian
literature, it will also appeal to readers more broadly concerned
with questions of literary influence, periodization, and
historiography.
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