The suffering traveller and the Romantic imagination /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Carl Thompson.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 299 pages ;
Dimensions
23 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Oxford English monographs
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2001.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-291) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Suffering traveller and the Romantic imagination.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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.