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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Travel writings"”.
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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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Beloved Savages and Other Outsiders: Genre and Gender Transgressions in the Travel Writings of Herman Melville, Bayard Taylor, and Charles Warren Stoddard
"'My dissertation is a study of the travel writings of three nineteenth-century American authors, Herman Melville, Bayard Taylor, and Charles Warren Stoddard. I argue that these writers evinced a rebellion encompassing literary as well as political and social subversion. In order to succeed in …
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From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Early American travel writers on Spain
… a discourse about Spain that, disseminated by travel writings, emerged and developed in the United States between the Revolutionary War and the first three decades of the nineteenth century. Specifically, it analyzes the shift from a politically-centered to a spiritually- or aesthetically-based …
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The Soviet pilgrimage : American writers in Russia, 1922-1947.
… attempted to understand the Soviet Union through travel. Hundreds of writers, journalists, academics, philosophers, engineers, and public intellectuals travelled to Russia (or, more properly, to the Soviet Union) to see the land of revolutionary communism. The list of such travelers is vast and …
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Making Up Race in Early Modern England
… cosmetics in a variety of documents, including travel writings, conduct books, theatrical records, anti-theatrical texts, sermons, cook books, medical texts, and anti-cosmetic pamphlet literature. Chapter two explores how Queen Elizabeth's use of cosmetics worked to consolidate a white English …
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Tourists and travellers: women's non-fictional writing about Scotland 1770-1830
In this dissertation I consider the travels, and the travel and other non-fictional writings, of five women who travelled within Scotland during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century: the anonymous author of A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland; Sarah Murray (later known as Sarah …
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English representations of Italians in the Risorgimento period : their use in the construction of nationality and masculinity
… in a reader's experience, and refer to novels, travel writings, andpaintings in which Italians play a significant part.The centrality of Victorian uses of history leads me to look initially at depictionsof the Roman and Renaissance past of Italians. The cultural capital attributed toItalian …
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Bayard Taylor and his Transatlantic Representations of Germany: A Nineteenth-Century American Encounter
… Taylor was a nineteenth-century American writer, traveler, lecturer, and diplomat well-known in his lifetime. Although active in many areas, he acquired fame chiefly through his adventures as a globetrotting news correspondent to exotic non-western regions at a time in which the United States was …
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Mobile Holmes: Sherlockiana, travel writing and the co-production of the Sherlock Holmes stories
… At its centre is an analysis of geographical and travel writings these readers produced about Holmes’s life and world, in the later years of the twentieth century. I argue that Sherlockian writings indicate a tendency to practise what I term ‘expansionary literary geography’; that is, a species of …
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Streifzüge durch eine "fremde" Welt : untersuchung ausgewählter schriftlicher Zeugnisse deutscher Reisender im südlichen Afrika im 19. Jahrhundert unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der kulturellen Fremderfahrung : eine literaturwissenschaftliche Untersuchung
… this thesis the written sources of the following travellers have been analysed: Gustav Theodor Fritsch (Drei Jahre in Südafrika, 1868), Theodor Hermann Wangemann (Ein Reise-Jahr in Südafrika, 1868) and Ernst von Weber (Vier Jahre in Afrika, 1878). The main focus is on the perception of the foreign …
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The Postapocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century
… virgin land; bringing together fictional tales, travel writings, and scientific texts, I show that U.S. authors who enthusiastically celebrated these myths distorted rather than escaped the bounds of history. Their literature results in an uncanny historicism that unsettles narratives of material …
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Travel Writing, Self and Other: Finding Reciprocal Space
… self and other as these are constructed in the travel writing of five authors: the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark; the Victorian polymath William Morris’ Icelandic Journals; travel writer and historian Robert Byron’s …
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Ultramarooned : gender, empire and narratives of travel in Southern Africa
… in the first half of this study. British women’s travel writings from the nineteenth century are the topic of the second part of the study, as these later texts yield the first important female perspectives on contact. Both subgenres are crucial to formulating a feminist reading of the southern …
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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 …
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Stendhal and Europe: The Portrayal of National Character and Cross-Cultural Consciousness in the Early Nineteenth Century
… considering numerous moments from a range of his writings in the light of the socio-historical life of the early nineteenth century, we argue that these themes represent a defining feature of his realism. Part Two consists of an interlude of several readings to investigate the relevance of the …