The Idea of Europe in British Travel Narratives, 1789-1914

The Idea of Europe in British Travel Narratives, 1789-1914
ISBN-10
1472429540
ISBN-13
9781472429544
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2014-08-28
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Author
Dr Katarina Gephardt

Description

Showing how specific rhetorical strategies used in nineteenth-century British travel writing produced fictional representations of continental Europe in works by Ann Radcliffe, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, and Bram Stoker, Katarina Gephardt argues that nineteenth-century writers envisioned their country simultaneously as distinct from the Continent and as a part of Europe. She suggests that their imaginative geography of Europe anticipated Britain’s ambivalence about European integration.

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