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Author Kassis, Dimitrios

Title Representations of the North in Victorian Travel Literature
Published Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015

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Contents Table of contents -- acknowledgements -- abstract -- introduction -- part i -- chapter one -- chapter two -- chapter three -- part ii -- chapter one -- chapter two -- part iii -- chapter one -- chapter two -- part iv -- chapter one -- chapter two -- part v -- chapter one -- chapter two -- part vi -- chapter one -- chapter two -- part vii -- chapter one -- chapter two -- conclusion -- bibliography
Summary Travel literature has always been associated with the construction of utopias which were founded on the idea of unknown lands. During their journeys in foreign lands, British travellers tended to formulate various critical opinions based on their background knowledge of the country visited. Their attempts to interpret other nations were often misinterpretations of the peoples in question as the Other. At the close of the eighteenth century, when Grand Tourism started to fade away and travelling became a mainstream activity for the middle-class Briton, travel writers attempted to identify with
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Travelers' writings, English -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Travel writing -- History -- 19th century
English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Authors, English -- Travel.
Literature: history & criticism.
Literature & literary studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Authors, English -- Travel
English prose literature
Literature
Travel writing
Travelers' writings, English
SUBJECT Scandinavia -- In literature
Europe, Northern -- In literature
Subject Northern Europe
Scandinavia
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1322889791
9781322889795
9781443875158
1443875155