The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination (Oxford English Monographs)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: July 6, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780199259984
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; General; Explorers in literature; History and criticism; Travel in literature; Travelers' writings, English
Description: "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.