Romantic geographies : discourses of travel, 1775-1844
This work focuses on the geographical construction of people and places in late 18th- and early 19th century travel writings.
Print Book, English, 2000
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, Manchester, New York, 2000
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
9780719055768, 9780719057854, 0719055768, 071905785X
42834782
Part 1 Partial perspectives - landscape, aesthetics and the politics of gender: written on the landscape - Mary Wollstonecraft's "A short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark", Sara Mills; "a species of knowledge both useful and ornamental" - Priscilla Wakefield's "Family tour of the British Empire", Jacqueline Labbe; the secrets of Ann Radcliffe's English travels, Dorothy McMillan. Part 2 The grand tour -sites of enthralment: Wordsworth's grand tour, Keith Hanley; travelling hopefully - Helen Maria Williams and the feminine discourse of sensibility, Chris Jones; women who transmute into tourist attractions - spectator and spectacle on the grand tour, Chloe Chard. Part 3 Pathologies of travel: climates of gender, Clare Brant; politics and the occupation of a nurse in Mariana Stake's "Letters from Italy", Jeanne Moskal; spas and salutary landscapes - the geography of health in Mary Shelley's "Rambles in Germany and Italy", Beth Dolan Kautz. Part 4 Colonial and imperial cartographies: land-jobbing in the western territories - radicalism, transatlantic emigration and the 1970s American travel narrative, W.M. Verhoeven; Francis Wilford and the colonial construction of Hindu geography, 1799-1922, Nigel Leask; Byron's digressive journey, Jane Stabler; Shelley's "Alastor" - travel beyond the limit, Saree Samir Makdisi.