The Idea of Europe in British Travel Narratives 1789-1914

The Idea of Europe in British Travel Narratives 1789-1914
ISBN-10
1472429559
ISBN-13
9781472429551
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
248
Language
English
Published
2014-08-01
Publisher
Lund Humphries Publishers
Author
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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