suffering traveller and the Romantic imagination
By: Carl Thompson.
Series: Oxford English monographs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199259984
Subjects: Wordsworth, William, -- 1770-1850 -- Travel.; Byron, George Gordon Byron, -- Baron, -- 1788-1824 -- Travel.; Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism.; Travel in literature.; Explorers in literature.; Adventure and adventurers in literature.; Shipwrecks in literature.; Travel -- Psychological aspects.; Travel -- Philosophy.; Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Notes: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: Tourists: diversification, distinction, and disdain, 1760-1830; Misadventurers I: theological and philosophical perspectives; Misadventurers II: social and political perspectives; Explorers: rhetorics of science and sacrifice; The romantic traveller I: Wordsworthian patterns of travel and misadventure; The romantic traveller II: Byronic patterns of travel and misadventure.