Editors:
Represents the only edited collection to provide multiple perspectives on nineteenth-century continental travel writing and tourism
Comprises essays by leading international travel writing and cultural scholars
Is distinguished by its wide-ranging coverage of cultural phenomena increasingly incorporated into the continental tour
Moves our consideration beyond traditional Grand Tour sites and itineraries to continental peripheries, suggesting the coextension of travel alongside experiential boundaries
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores the boundaries of British continental travel and tourism in the nineteenth century, stretching from Norway to Bulgaria, from visitors’ albums to missionary efforts, from juvenilia to joint authorship. The essay topics invoke new aesthetics of travel as consumption, travel as satire, and of the developing culture of tourism.
Chronologically arranged, the book charts the growth and permutations of this new consumerist ideology of travel driven by the desires of both men and women: the insatiable appetite for new accounts of old routes as well as appropriation of the new; interart reproductions of description and illustration; and wider cultural manifestations of tourism within popular entertainment and domestic settings. Continental tourism provides multiple perspectives with wide-ranging coverage of cultural phenomena increasingly incorporated into and affected by the nineteenth-century continental tour. The essays suggest the coextension of travel alongside experiential boundaries and reveal the emergence of a consumerist attitude toward travel that persists in the present day.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Department of English, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK
Benjamin Colbert
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University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, USA
Lucy Morrison
About the editors
Benjamin Colbert is a Reader in English Literature at the University of Wolverhampton and Co-Editor of European Romantic Review. He is the author of Shelley's Eye: Travel Writing and Aesthetic Vision and has edited a number of essay collections and scholarly editions of travel writing. He founded and maintains the online open-access database, Women's Travel Writing, 1780–1840.
Lucy Morrison is a Professor of English and Director of the University Honors Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Co-author of A Mary Shelley Encyclopedia, she has published articles on authors ranging from John Keats to Charlotte Brontë as well as editing essay collections and scholarly editions of post-Napoleonic travel narratives. She is currently Co-Editor of European Romantic Review.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Continental Tourism, Travel Writing, and the Consumption of Culture, 1814–1900
Editors: Benjamin Colbert, Lucy Morrison
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36146-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36145-7Published: 26 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36148-8Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36146-4Published: 25 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 343
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature