Continental Tourism, Travel Writing, and the Consumption of Culture, 1814–1900

Benjamin Colbert is a Reader in English Literature at the University of Wolverhampton and Co-Editor of European Romantic Review. He is the author of Shelley's Eye: Travel Writing and Aesthetic Vision and has edited a number of essay collections and scholarly editions of travel writing. He founded and maintains the online open-access database, Women's Travel Writing, 1780-1840. Lucy Morrison is a Professor of English and Director of the University Honors Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Co-author of A Mary Shelley Encyclopedia, she has published articles on authors ranging from John Keats to Charlotte Bronte as well as editing essay collections and scholarly editions of post-Napoleonic travel narratives. She is currently Co-Editor of European Romantic Review.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Ephemeral Entertainment: Montagnes Russes and Movement in Paris.- Chapter 3: The Album of the Fathers and the Father of all Albums: Inscribing Wonder and Loss in the Grande Chartreuse.- Chapter 4: "Dieting with Antiquity": Eating and Drinking with the Ancients at Pompeii.- Chapter 5: "Raw Productions . . . Exported in Abundance": Continental Tourism in Satire, 1815-1828.- Chapter 6: Ruskin in the 1830s: Emerging Authorship and the Print Culture of Travel.- Chapter 7: Upper-Class Travel with a Political Slant: the Destinies of Nations and Empires through the Eyes of Lord and Lady Strangford.- Chapter 8: Beyond the Grand Tour: Norway and the Nineteenth-Century British Traveller.- Chapter 9: Grand Tourists, Missionary Travelers, and Frances Stenhouse.- Chapter 10: Gender, Genre, and Geography in Ménie Dowie's A Girl in the Karpathians.- Chapter 11: Travelers in the Wilderness: Robert Louis Stevenson's Transformative Travels

"Each of the chapter contributions to Continental Tourism exhibits close attention to the biographical and cultural contexts that shape their subjects. ... The book should prove of equal interest to scholars interested in the development of travel writing as a form across the century." (Christopher M. Keirstead, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (2), 2023)

“Each of the chapter contributions to Continental Tourism exhibits close attention to the biographical and cultural contexts that shape their subjects. … The book should prove of equal interest to scholars interested in the development of travel writing as a form across the century.” (Christopher M. Keirstead, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (2), 2023)