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The Idea of Europe in British Travel Narratives, 1789-1914
Katarina Gephardt
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The nineteenth century was the heyday of travel, with Britons continually reassessing their own culture in relation to not only the colonized but also other Europeans, especially the ones that they encountered on the southern and eastern peripheries of the continent. Offering illustrative case studies, Katarina Gephardt shows how specific rhetorical strategies used in contemporary travel writing produced popular fictional representations of continental Europe in the works of Ann Radcliffe, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, and Bram Stoker. She examines a wide range of autobiographical and fictional travel narratives to demonstrate that the imaginative geographies underpinning British ideas of Europe emerged ... Read more
The nineteenth century was the heyday of travel, with Britons continually reassessing their own culture in relation to not only the colonized but also other Europeans, especially the ones that they encountered on the southern and eastern peripheries of the continent. Offering illustrative case studies, Katarina Gephardt shows how specific rhetorical strategies used in contemporary travel writing produced popular fictional representations of continental Europe in the works of Ann Radcliffe, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, and Bram Stoker. She examines a wide range of autobiographical and fictional travel narratives to demonstrate that the imaginative geographies underpinning British ideas of Europe emerged ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472429544
SKU
V9781472429544
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99-1
About Katarina Gephardt
Katarina Gephardt is Associate Professor of English at Kennesaw State University. She has published on nineteenth-century British literature, travel writing, and pedagogy, and her other research interests include postcolonial studies and Central European literature.
Reviews for The Idea of Europe in British Travel Narratives, 1789-1914
'Gephardt's range of consideration is impressive: she moves smoothly from fiction to newspaper accounts to published travel diaries and journals to analysis of etchings that underscore her discussion of shifting images and the development of photography at the century's end. That range is what makes the book so fascinating; it serves as eminently readable literary analysis but is contextualized so ... Read more