The idea of Europe in British travel narratives, 1789-1914 /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Katarina Gephardt.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 238 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Introduction: imagining the continent -- Hybrid gardens: nationalization of taste, travel writing, and Ann Radcliffe's Continental landscape -- The occidentalist costume: Lord Byron and travelers' perspectives on Eastern Europe -- From the prison of the nation: tourism, Anglo-Italian dialogue, and mid-Victorian remapping of Italy -- The mirror image: British travel writing and Bram Stoker's Eastern Europe colonial discourse and the mapping of Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century -- Postscript "dense Westerners" and persistent peripheries: Edwardian fictions of Europe and beyond.
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
English prose literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
National characteristics in literature.
Travelers' writings, English-- Europe-- History and criticism.