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Travelers' writings, British --- British travelers' writings --- British literature --- History and criticism. --- Ireland --- Irish Free State --- Description and travel --- Historiography.
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In his book Fashioning the Canadian Landscape, J.I. Little examines how Canada, much like the United States, came to be identified with its natural landscape. Little argues that in contrast to America, Canada's image was strongly influenced by the picturesque convention favoured by British travel writers.
Tourism --- Travel --- Travelers' writings, British --- Travelers' writings, American --- National characteristics, Canadian --- Picturesque, The, in literature. --- Landscapes in literature. --- History --- History and criticism. --- Canada --- In literature. --- Description and travel.
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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 Brontë as well as editing essay collections and scholarly editions of post-Napoleonic travel narratives. She is currently Co-Editor of European Romantic Review. This book explores the boundaries of British continental travel and tourism in the nineteenth century, stretching from Norway to Bulgaria, from visitors’ albums to missionary efforts, from juvenilia to joint authorship. The essay topics invoke new aesthetics of travel as consumption, travel as satire, and of the developing culture of tourism. Chronologically arranged, the book charts the growth and permutations of this new consumerist ideology of travel driven by the desires of both men and women: the insatiable appetite for new accounts of old routes as well as appropriation of the new; interart reproductions of description and illustration; and wider cultural manifestations of tourism within popular entertainment and domestic settings. Continental tourism provides multiple perspectives with wide-ranging coverage of cultural phenomena increasingly incorporated into and affected by the nineteenth-century continental tour. The essays suggest the coextension of travel alongside experiential boundaries and reveal the emergence of a consumerist attitude toward travel that persists in the present day. .
Travelers' writings, British --- Travel in literature. --- Tourism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Voyages and travels in literature --- British travelers' writings --- British literature --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- British literature. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- British and Irish Literature.
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This study is principally about travel and the travel experience, engaged those themes within the context of existing post-colonial and post-modern debates that critique the writings of Western travelers who journeyed in non-Western locales. The travel writers, or travel savants, as they are characterized in the work, rarely traveled alone but typically promoted a travel persona of the idealized solitary traveler derived from deeply engrained traditions in Western travel literature. Such solitary projections were mitigated by a narrative device that envisioned traveling companions in the form
Travelers' writings, British --- English prose literature --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- East Asia --- British travelers' writings --- British literature --- History and criticism --- China --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel
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"How did eighteenth-century travellers experience, describe and represent the urban environments they encountered as they made the Grand Tour? This fascinating book focuses on the changing responses of the British to the cities of Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice, during a period of unprecedented urbanisation at home. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material, including travel accounts written by women, Rosemary Sweet explores how travel literature helped to create and perpetuate the image of a city; what the different meanings and imaginative associations attached to these cities were; and how the contrasting descriptions of each of these cities reflected the travellers' own attitudes to urbanism. More broadly, the book explores the construction and performance of personal, gender and national identities, and the shift in cultural values away from neo-classicism towards medievalism and the gothic, which is central to our understanding of eighteenth-century culture and the transition to modernity"--
British --- Travelers --- Travelers' writings, British --- HISTORY / Europe / General. --- Travel --- History --- Italy --- Description and travel. --- Travellers --- Voyagers --- Wayfarers --- Persons --- Voyages and travels --- British travelers' writings --- British literature --- British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- Ethnology --- Description and travel --- History of civilization --- anno 1700-1799 --- Great Britain --- Arts and Humanities --- British - Travel - Italy - History - 18th century --- Travelers - Great Britain - History - 18th century --- Travelers' writings, British - 18th century --- British - Travel - Europe - History - 18th century --- Italy - Description and travel
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Cet ouvrage présente une étude des journaux que James Cook rédigea à l’occasion des trois grandes expéditions qu’il dirigea dans le Pacifique entre 1768 et 1779. Le nom de James Cook appartient avant tout au domaine de la navigation et de l’exploration maritime. Les écrits de celui que l’histoire a retenu comme l’un des plus grands navigateurs de son temps n’ont que très rarement intéressé la critique en dehors de leur aspect hautement référentiel, comme compte rendu fidèle de l’expérience vécue en mer et lors des nombreuses escales dans le Pacifique. Au-delà de l’intérêt géographique, ethnologique et scientifique que présente indubitablement le texte de Cook, l’étude de ces journaux révèle cependant la présence d’un certain nombre de mécanismes d’écriture et de procédés narratifs proches de ceux, traditionnellement dévolus au récit de fiction, qui conduisent à envisager ces écrits dans leur dimension littéraire et à y voir moins la description d’un réel, au demeurant impossible à saisir véritablement, que l’élaboration d’un discours qui prenne en compte l’horizon d’attente d’un lectorat avide d’exotisme et d’aventure, au sujet de cette région du globe largement méconnue à l’époque qu’est le Pacifique. C’est également l’une des caractéristiques des journaux de Cook d’avoir été préparés pour la publication par une tierce personne qui n’avait pas pris par à l’expédition : John Hawkesworth pour le premier voyage et John Douglas pour les voyages suivants. C’est le parcours du texte de Cook, depuis les premières notes prises dans le journal de bord jusqu’à la publication du récit officiel qui est également présenté ici.
Travelers' writings, British --- Travel writing --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Cook, James, --- Travel --- Pacific Area --- Discovery and exploration. --- British travelers' writings --- British literature --- Cook, Jacques --- Asia-Pacific Region --- Asian-Pacific Region --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Pacific Ocean Region --- Pacific Region --- Pacific Rim --- voyage --- journal de voyage --- Pacifique --- James Cook
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The term "orientalism", as it is understood in the English-speaking world, has known a rather paradoxical reversal of meaning, since after having designated the science of all those who tried to know the Orient through its languages and its texts former (linguists, translators, geographers or historians), he gradually came to designate the general perception of the East by the West, a perception fatally tinged by the fantasies projected onto an unrecognized Other, as has amply shown postcolonial studies. The aim of this work is to propose a new examination of this too clear divide between knowledge and dream, and to try to define to what extent and in which fields the scientific process could have entered in consonance, or conversely in dissonance, with the "Oriental dream". We discover here that dreams of elsewhere and knowledge of the other are not necessarily antithetical, and can join or intersect in complex mirror games. The work has favoured a multidisciplinary approach: textual analyses (travel accounts, translations or rewritings of oriental tales, diplomatic reports or writings of the Orientalist tradition) are combined with studies based on the history of art or on the history of ideas, to sketch a broad panorama of these ambiguous exchanges between East and West.
Orientalism --- Orientalism in art --- Orientalism in literature --- English literature --- Art, British --- Travelers' writings, British --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Fine Arts - General --- British travelers' writings --- British literature --- British art --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- East and West --- History and criticism --- Great Britain --- Civilization --- Asian influences. --- rêve --- orientalisme --- littérature britannique
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L'Orient a toujours occupé une place privilégiée dans l'imaginaire occidental. Au xixe siècle, grâce au bouleversement des conditions politico-économiques, ces contrées longtemps fantasmées deviennent plus que jamais accessibles ; artistes et écrivains entreprennent donc le voyage qui leur permettra de confronter leurs rêves à la réalité. Comme le montre ce livre, la Grande-Bretagne n'a pas échappé au phénomène orientaliste : des peintres, des photographes, des architectes, des poètes et des romanciers ont visité l'Afrique et l'Asie, poussés par un désir d'authenticité, ou ont préféré, au contraire, éviter la rencontre avec un réel qui ne pouvait que les décevoir. Créateurs d'images profanes ou sacrées, auteurs de textes documentaires ou de fiction, les uns comme les autres auront eu à lutter contre le poids de préjugés et la force des stéréotypes pour s'approprier, s'assimiler l'Orient.
Art, Asian, in literature --- Art, British --- English literature --- Orientalism in art --- Orientalism in literature --- Orientalism --- Travelers' writings, British --- British art --- British travelers' writings --- British literature --- East and West --- Themes, motives --- History and criticism --- History --- Great Britain --- Civilization --- Asian influences. --- Orientalism in art. --- Orientalism in literature. --- Themes, motives. --- History and criticism. --- art --- orient --- imaginaire --- orientalisme --- Grande-Bretagne --- mythe --- XIXème siècle --- Arts victoriens --- Orientalisme --- Grande-bretagne --- 19e siècle
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This collection reveals the variety of literary forms and visual media through which travel records were conveyed in the long nineteenth century, bringing together a group of leading researchers from a range of disciplines to explore the relationship between travel writing, visual representation and formal innovation.
Travelers' writings, British --- English prose literature --- Travel writing --- Literature and society --- Material culture in literature --- Aesthetics, British --- English Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- History --- Material culture in literature. --- History and criticism. --- British travelers' writings --- British literature --- European literature. --- British literature. --- Literature-History and criticism. --- Fiction. --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- European Literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Literary History. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- European literature --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Philosophy --- Literature History and criticism --- Theory, etc.
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Cette monographie fait découvrir Charles Dickens sous un autre visage, moins connu que celui de romancier, celui d’écrivain-voyageur. Dickens publia en effet au cours de sa vie trois récits de voyage (American Notes, Pictures from Italy et Le Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices écrit en collaboration avec Wilkie Collins) ainsi qu’un volume d’articles viatiques (The Uncommercial Traveller). Ces textes méritent d’être découverts car ils ont pour particularité de combiner non seulement des caractéristiques propres à toute écriture de voyage mais aussi des traces d’écriture plus romanesque et théâtrale, ainsi qu’une dimension journalistique - Dickens étant également un journaliste accompli. C’est cette traversée des genres, alliée à l’utilisation d’une multitude de supports médiatiques, ainsi qu’à une approche originale du temps et de l’espace, qui rend ces écrits de voyage si singuliers et si passionnants. Cette écriture de voyage est analysée à partir de perspectives critiques comme la géographie culturelle, la géographie sensible et subjective, la géocritique, la géophilosophie, les études sur la mobilité, ainsi que la poétique du support. Une bibliographie raisonnée à la fin du volume met en relation les approches théoriques les plus récentes de la littérature de voyage et les quatre textes viatiques de Dickens.
Travelers' writings, British --- History and criticism. --- Dickens, Charles, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- British travelers' writings --- British literature --- Dickens, Charles --- Dikensi, Čʻarlz, --- Dickens, Karol, --- Dikens, Charlz, --- Ti-keng-ssu, --- Digengsi, --- Dikkens, Charlz, --- Dikensas, Čarlzas, --- Ṭikkan̲s, Cārls, --- Ṭikkan̲cu, Cārlacu, --- Ṭikkan̲s, Cārlas, --- Диккенс, Чарлз, --- דיקינס, צ׳רלס, --- דיקנס, ַ צ׳רלז --- דיקנס, טשרלס --- דיקנס, צ׳רלז, --- דיקנס, צ׳רלס --- דיקנס, צ׳רלס, --- דיקענס, טש --- דיקענס, טשארלז --- דיקענס, טשארלז, --- דיקענס, טש., --- דיקקענס, טשארלז --- טשרלס, דיקנס --- チャールズ.ディケンズ, --- 狄更斯查尔斯, --- Boz, --- Sparks, Timothy, --- récit de voyage --- mobilité --- géographie --- géocritique --- monographie --- écrivain-voyageur --- géophilosophie
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