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

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

List of contents

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;

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Katarina Gephardt, Gephardt Katarina
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032925363
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92536-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Travel writing, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism