The suffering traveller and the Romantic imagination /
[Book]
Carl Thompson.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
xi, 299 pages ;
23 cm.
Oxford English monographs
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-291) and index.
Tourists : diversification and disdain, 1760-1830 -- Misadventurers I : existential themes -- Misadventurers II : political themes -- Explorers : rhetorics of science and sacrifice -- Romantic travel I : Wordsworthian scripts -- Romantic travel II : Byronic scripts.
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"Carl Thompson explores the romance that can attach to the notion of suffering in travel, and the importance of the persona of 'suffering traveller' in the Romantic self-fashionings of figures such as Wordsworth and Byron. Situating such self-fashionings in the context of the upsurge of tourism in the late eighteenth century, he shows how the Romantics sought to differentiate themselves from mere tourists by following alternative models, and alternative travel 'scripts,' in both their travelling and their travel-writing."--BOOK JACKET.
Suffering traveller and the Romantic imagination.
Byron, George Gordon Byron,1788-1824-- Travel.
Wordsworth, William,1770-1850-- Travel.
Byron, George Gordon Byron,1788-1824.
Byron, George Gordon Byron.
Wordsworth, William (Schriftsteller)
Wordsworth, William,1770-1850.
Adventure and adventurers in literature.
Explorers in literature.
Romanticism-- Great Britain.
Shipwrecks in literature.
Travel in literature.
Travel-- Philosophy.
Travel-- Psychological aspects.
Travelers' writings, English-- History and criticism.