The Idea of Europe in British Travel Narratives, 1789-1914 - Katarina Gephardt

The Idea of Europe in British Travel Narratives, 1789-1914

Buch | Softcover
248 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-92536-3 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
Showing how specific rhetorical strategies used in nineteenth-century British travel writing produced fictional representations of continental Europe in works by Ann Radcliffe, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, and Bram Stoker, Katarina Gephardt argues that nineteenth-century writers envisioned their country simultaneously as distinct from the Continent
The nineteenth century was the heyday of travel, with Britons continually reassessing their own culture in relation to not only the colonized but also other Europeans, especially the ones that they encountered on the southern and eastern peripheries of the continent. Offering illustrative case studies, Katarina Gephardt shows how specific rhetorical strategies used in contemporary travel writing produced popular fictional representations of continental Europe in the works of Ann Radcliffe, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, and Bram Stoker. She examines a wide range of autobiographical and fictional travel narratives to demonstrate that the imaginative geographies underpinning British ideas of Europe emerged from the spaces between fact and fiction. Adding texture to her study are her analyses of the visual dimensions of cross-cultural representation and of the role of evolving technologies in defining a shared set of rhetorical strategies. Gephardt argues that British writers envisioned their country simultaneously as distinct from the Continent and as a part of Europe, anticipating the contradictory British discourse around European integration that involves both fear that the European super-state will violate British sovereignty and a desire to play a more central role in the European Union.

Katarina Gephardt is Associate Professor of English at Kennesaw State University. She has published on nineteenth-century British literature, travel writing, and pedagogy, and her other research interests include postcolonial studies and Central European literature.

Chapter 1 Introduction Imagining the Continent; Chapter 1a Hybrid Gardens: Nationalization of Taste, Travel Writing, and Ann Radcliffe's Continental Landscapes; Chapter 2 The Occidentalist Costume: Lord Byron and Travelers' Perspectives on Eastern Europe; Chapter 3 From the Prison of the Nation: Tourism, Anglo-Italian Dialogue, and Mid-Victorian Remapping of Italy; Chapter 4 The Mirror Image: British Travel Writing and Bram Stoker's Eastern Europe; Chapter 5 Postscript Dense Westerners and Persistent Peripheries: Edwardian Fictions of Europe and Beyond;

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 458 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-032-92536-1 / 1032925361
ISBN-13 978-1-032-92536-3 / 9781032925363
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