David Bell and Mark Jayne
Ashgate
Paperback
302
2004
"Based on extensive new research, British Travel Writers in Europe 1750-1800 explores the energetic world of eighteenth-century travel writing. Well-known writers like Montagu, Sterne, Smollett and Wollstonecraft are located within a fascinating context of political debate, personal and gender-based controversy, and authorial self-fashioning. Ranging from the highbrow to the popular, Turner's study also pays detailed attention to the extensive and influential critical reception of travelogues in the main review journals of the day. This reconstruction of a largely neglected aspect of eighteenth-century and early Romantic culture offers a significant reorientation of the period's literary canon, and provides unique insights into the processes by which British national identity was constructed during its formative years."
Ashgate
Paperback
302
2004
"Based on extensive new research, British Travel Writers in Europe 1750-1800 explores the energetic world of eighteenth-century travel writing. Well-known writers like Montagu, Sterne, Smollett and Wollstonecraft are located within a fascinating context of political debate, personal and gender-based controversy, and authorial self-fashioning. Ranging from the highbrow to the popular, Turner's study also pays detailed attention to the extensive and influential critical reception of travelogues in the main review journals of the day. This reconstruction of a largely neglected aspect of eighteenth-century and early Romantic culture offers a significant reorientation of the period's literary canon, and provides unique insights into the processes by which British national identity was constructed during its formative years."