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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Travel Journals"”.
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Romantic subjectivity: women’s identity in their nineteenth-century travel writing about Scotland
… women’s identity in their<br/>nineteenth-century travel writing about Scotland, is concerned with the<br/>location of women and their creation and construction of relational identity in<br/>their personal narratives of the nineteenth century.<br/>The texts taken for study are travel journals, …
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Mourning at Mount Vernon: Memory, Commemoration, and Thanatourism in the Creation of Nineteenth-Century American Identity
… site of George Washington’s Tomb, I contend that travel to this location falls within the definitions of thanatourism developed by Tourism Studies to explore the motives of tourists who choose to visit places related to death and disasters. For nineteenth-century American tourists, steeped in the …
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British women’s travel writings in the era of the French Revolution
… to investigate how educated British women travellers challenged conventional female roles and how they participated in the political culture in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era. Part One will discuss those who tried hard to challenge or to correct traditionally-defined femininity and to …
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The prospect
… by the national land survey, overland travel journals and pictorial depictions of the nineteenth century. These frontier images are then considered alongside those twentieth century representations that exhibited the completion of a systematized territory of an ideal future. The later …
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THE HERMENEUTICS OF THE ARABIAN SŪQ
… region’s poetic heritage (poetry, literature, travel journals and philosophy), cultural products (architecture, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts and puppet shows) and everyday dialogues (interviews, social survey and anecdotes). By doing so, the research attempts to discover something new …
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Behind Workhouse Walls: The Public Regulation of Slavery in Charleston, 1730-1850
… court records, newspapers, personal diaries, travel journals, and slave narratives reveal that jails and workhouses not only secured law and order within slave societies but also functioned as tangible symbols of government power to which all people, including the enslaved, were subject. The …
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On Colonial Textuality and Difference: Musical Encounters with French Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Algeria
… Africa, French artists, writers and explorers traveled to Algeria in order to gain artistic inspiration and greater understanding of the culture, geography and inhabitants of the new colony. This dissertation places music within the context of French colonial culture, identifying the …
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Descending caves : descent narratives and the subterranean science and literature of the long eighteenth century, 1680 - 1830
… descent narratives in poetry, novels and travel journals led to the evolution of a sub-genre in eighteenth-century literature and nascent ideas of the subconscious. The archetypal form of the classical descent narrative is based on the transformative experience of a descent underground and …
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Modelling visitor experience: a case study from World Heritage Sites, Thailand.
… based on a number of supplementary data such as travel journals, visitor books, and interpreted photographs written and taken by visitors who visited to the sites. Survey instruments for this study consist of interview and observation guides that were developed accordingly to emergent concepts …
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Negotiated ecologies: Indigeneity and ecocriticism in 19th century Bolivia and Chile
… the way in which animals are depicted in travel journals, oral tales and a novel, to explore attitudes toward both wild and domesticated animals and to question the human-animal divide. A brief discussion of travel writings In the Wilds of South America (1918) by Leo Miller and Carpenter’s …