基本説明
It focuses on the geographical construction of people and places in late 18th- and early 19th-century travel writings.
Full Description
This work focuses on the geographical construction of people and places in late 18th- and early 19th century travel writings. As the essays demonstrate, romantic travellers went to warzones and imperial frontiers; the reported on hotels and health spas; their concerns included ethnography, medicine, politics and aesthetics. Whether undertaking the Grand Tour of Europe or travelling to America, India or Scandinavia, travellers often sought to cross more than national boundaries: their accounts invite an explicitly materialist criticism that engages with transgressions of national, racial, gender, class and generic boundaries. Scholars in the fields of Romanticism and Romantic travel draw on a range of historicist approaches, especially feminist and post-colonial, to examine the politics of location in writings that range from Mary Wollstonecraft and William Wordsworth to Francis Wilford and Priscilla Wakefield. They contribute to debates about Romanticism and cultural power and provide a critical map of the quickly expanding area of Romantic travel.
Contents
Part 1 Partial perspectives - landscape, aesthetics and the politics of gender: written on the landscape - Mary Wollstonecraft's "A short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark", Sara Mills; "a species of knowledge both useful and ornamental" - Priscilla Wakefield's "Family tour of the British Empire", Jacqueline Labbe; the secrets of Ann Radcliffe's English travels, Dorothy McMillan. Part 2 The grand tour -sites of enthralment: Wordsworth's grand tour, Keith Hanley; travelling hopefully - Helen Maria Williams and the feminine discourse of sensibility, Chris Jones; women who transmute into tourist attractions - spectator and spectacle on the grand tour, Chloe Chard. Part 3 Pathologies of travel: climates of gender, Clare Brant; politics and the occupation of a nurse in Mariana Stake's "Letters from Italy", Jeanne Moskal; spas and salutary landscapes - the geography of health in Mary Shelley's "Rambles in Germany and Italy", Beth Dolan Kautz. Part 4 Colonial and imperial cartographies: land-jobbing in the western territories - radicalism, transatlantic emigration and the 1970s American travel narrative, W.M. Verhoeven; Francis Wilford and the colonial construction of Hindu geography, 1799-1922, Nigel Leask; Byron's digressive journey, Jane Stabler; Shelley's "Alastor" - travel beyond the limit, Saree Samir Makdisi.
