| Description |
xi, 299 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Oxford English monographs |
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Oxford English monographs.
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| Contents |
1. Tourists : diversification and disdain, 1760-1830 -- 2. Misadventurers I : existential themes -- 3. Misadventurers II : political themes -- 4. Explorers : rhetorics of science and sacrifice -- 5. Romantic travel I : Wordsworthian scripts -- 6. Romantic travel II : Byronic scripts |
| Summary |
"Carl Thompson explores the romance that can attach to the notion of suffering in travel, and the importance of the persona of 'suffering traveller' in the Romantic self-fashionings of figures such as Wordsworth and Byron. Situating such self-fashionings in the context of the upsurge of tourism in the late eighteenth century, he shows how the Romantics sought to differentiate themselves from mere tourists by following alternative models, and alternative travel 'scripts,' in both their travelling and their travel-writing."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [276]-291) and index |
| Subject |
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Travel.
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Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Travel.
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Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism.
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Travel in literature.
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Explorers in literature.
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Adventure and adventurers in literature.
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Shipwrecks in literature.
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Travel -- Psychological aspects.
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Travel -- Philosophy.
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Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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| LC no. |
2007003061 |
| ISBN |
9780199259984 acidfree paper |
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0199259984 acid-free paper |
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