Katarina Gephardt

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9781472429544
• ISBN-10: 1472429540
• Artikelnr.: 45513834

Autorenporträt

Katarina Gephardt is Associate Professor of English at Kennesaw State University. She has published on nineteenth-century British literature, travel writing, and pedagogy, and her other research interests include postcolonial studies and Central European literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Imagining the Continent; Chapter 1a Hybrid Gardens:
Nationalization of Taste, Travel Writing, and Ann Radcliffe's Continental
Landscapes; Chapter 2 The Occidentalist Costume: Lord Byron and Travelers'
Perspectives on Eastern Europe; Chapter 3 From the Prison of the Nation:
Tourism, Anglo-Italian Dialogue, and Mid-Victorian Remapping of Italy;
Chapter 4 The Mirror Image: British Travel Writing and Bram Stoker's
Eastern Europe; Chapter 5 Postscript Dense Westerners and Persistent
Peripheries: Edwardian Fictions of Europe and Beyond;