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Journal articles on the topic "British Travel Literature"

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S. Dyakonova, Elena. "Travel in British fantasy (J.R. Tolkien, T. Pratchett)." Journal of Language and Literature 5, no. 3 (August 30, 2014): 183–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.7813/jll.2014/5-3/32.

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Muse, Amy. "British women’s travel to Greece, 1840–1914: travels in the palimpsest." Studies in Travel Writing 20, no. 4 (October 2016): 421–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2016.1276865.

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Buck, Pamela. "Recovering British Romantic Women Travel Writers." European Romantic Review 31, no. 3 (May 3, 2020): 394–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509585.2020.1747712.

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Fisher, Michael H. "European Travel Literature Beyond British India's Nineteenth-Century Western Frontier." Itinerario 29, no. 1 (March 2005): 101–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115300021719.

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Mulvey, Christopher. "Travel Literature: The “Medland” Trope in the British Holiday Brochure." Journal of Popular Culture 29, no. 4 (March 1996): 99–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1996.99687687.x.

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Mulligan, Maureen. "The Representation of Francoist Spain by Two British Women Travel Writers." Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 51, no. 4 (December 1, 2016): 5–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stap-2016-0017.

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Abstract This article offers a discussion of two books by British women which describe travels in Spain during the post-war period, that is, during the dictatorship of General Franco. The aim is to analyse how Spanish culture and society are represented in these texts, and to what extent the authors engage with questions of the ethics of travelling to Spain in this period. Two different forms of travel - by car, and by horse - also influence the way the travellers can connect with local people; and the individual’s interest in Spain as a historical site, or as a timeless escape from industrial northern Europe, similarly affect the focus of the accounts. The global politics of travel writing, and the distinction between colonial and cosmopolitan travel writers, are important elements in our understanding of the way a foreign culture is articulated for the home market. Women’s travel writing also has its own discursive history which we consider briefly. In conclusion, texts involve common discursive and linguistic strategies which have to negotiate the specificity of an individual’s travels in a particular time and place. The authors and books referred to are Rose Macaulay’s Fabled Shore: From the Pyrenees to Portugal (1949) and Penelope Chetwode’s Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia (1963).
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Watkinson, Caroline. "English Convents in Eighteenth-Century Travel Literature." Studies in Church History 48 (2012): 219–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400001339.

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‘A Nun’s dress is a very becoming one’, wrote Cornelius Cayley in 1772. Similarly, Philip Thicknesse, witnessing the clothing ceremony at the English Augustinian convent in Paris, observed that the nun’s dress was ‘quite white, and no ways unbecoming … [it] did not render her in my eyes, a whit less proper for the affections of the world’. This tendency to objectify nuns by focusing on the mysterious and sexualized aspects of conventual life was a key feature of eighteenth-century British culture. Novels, poems and polemic dwelt on the theme of the forced vocation, culminating in the dramatic portrayals of immured nuns in the Gothic novels of the 1790s. The convent was portrayed as inherently despotic, its unnatural hierarchy and silent culture directly opposed to the sociability which, in Enlightenment thought, defined a civilized society. This despotic climate was one aspect of a culture of tyranny and constraint, which rendered nuns either innocent and victimized or complicit and immoral. Historians have noted that these stereotypes were remarkably similar to those applied to the Orient and have thus extended Said’s notion of ‘otherness’ - the self-affirmation of a dominant culture as a norm from which other cultures deviate – to apply not merely to oriental cultures but to those aspects of European culture deemed exotic. In so doing, they have challenged the notion that travel writing was an exact record of social experience and have initiated a more nuanced understanding of textual convention and authorial experience. For historians of eighteenth-century Britain this has led to an examination of the construction of anti-Catholicism within travel literature and its use as an ideology around which the Protestant nation could unite. Thus, Jeremy Black has noted that anti-Catholicism remained the ‘prime ideological stance in Britain’ and has claimed that encounters with Catholicism by British travellers in France ‘excited fear or unease … and, at times, humour or ridicule’. Likewise, Bryan Dolan and Christopher Hibbert have seen encounters with continental convents culminating in negative descriptions of rituals, relics and enclosed space.
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Christie, Clive J. "British Literary Travellers in Southeast Asia in an Era of Colonial Retreat." Modern Asian Studies 28, no. 4 (October 1994): 673–737. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x0001252x.

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Some write because they travel, and some travel because they write. A large number of progessional writers, not just travel-writers, have derived inspiration from travel: equally, a large number of travellers, who are not professional writers, have nevertheless often felt compelled to encapsulate their experience in literary form. It is the aim of this paper to survey such British travel literature relating to Southeast Asia during the period of massive transformation dating approximately from the ‘20S to the ’ 50S of this century. It is not intended to be comprehensive, but representative of the major landmarks of that literature along with some lesser-known works of particular interest.
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Guelke, Jeanne Kay, and Karen Morin. "Gender, nature, empire: women naturalists in nineteenth century British travel literature." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 26, no. 3 (September 2001): 306–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-5661.00024.

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Quintana, Ángel Gurría. "TRAVELLING THROUGH DISCOURSE, DISCOURSING ON TRAVEL: RECENT WRITING ON TRAVEL LITERATURE AND BRITISH TRAVELLERS IN MEXICO." Studies in Travel Writing 5, no. 1 (January 2001): 172–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2001.9634916.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "British Travel Literature"

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Ḥajarī, Hilāl. "Oman through British eyes : British travel writing on Oman from 1800 to 1970." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2662/.

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This thesis focuses on the images of Oman in British travel writing from 1800 to 1970. In texts that vary from travel accounts to sailors’ memoirs, complete travelogues, autobiographies, and letters, it looks at British representations of Oman as a place, people, and culture. It argues that these writings are heterogeneous and discontinuous throughout the periods under consideration. Offering diverse voices from British travellers, this thesis challenges Edward Said’s project in Orientalism (1978) which looks to Western discourse on the Middle East homogenisingly as Eurocentric and hostile. Chapter one explores and discusses the current Orientalist debate suggesting alternatives to the dilemma of Orientalism and providing a framework for the arguments in the ensuing chapters. Chapter two outlines the historical Omani-British relations, and examines the travel accounts and memoirs written by several British merchants and sailors who stopped in Muscat and other Omani coastal cities during their route from Britain to India and vice versa in the nineteenth century. Chapter three is concerned with the works of travellers who penetrated the Interior of Oman. James Wellsted’s Travels in Arabia (1838), Samuel Miles’ The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf (1919) and other uncollected travel accounts, and Bertram Thomas’s Alarms and Excursions (1932) are investigated in this chapter. Chapter four considers the travellers who explored Dhofar in the southern Oman and the Ruba Al-Khali or the Empty Quarter. Precisely, it is devoted to Bertram Thomas’s Arabia Felix (1932) and Wilfred Thesiger’s Arabian Sands (1959). Chapter five looks at the last generation of British travellers who were in Oman from 1950 to 1970 employed either by oil companies or the Sultan Said bin Taimur. It explores Edward Henderson’s Arabian Destiny (1988), David Gwynne-James’s Letters from Oman (2001), and Ian Skeet’s Muscat and Oman (1974). This thesis concludes with final remarks on British travel writing on Oman and recommendations for future studies related to the subject. The gap of knowledge that this thesis undertakes to fill is that most of the texts under discussion have not been studied in any context.
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Hållen, Nicklas. "Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-46365.

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This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. The author argues that objects are deeply involved in the construction of pre-modern and modern spheres that the travelling subject moves between. The objects in the travel accounts are studied in relation to a contextual background of Victorian commodity and object culture, epitomised by the 1851 Great Exhibition and the birth of the modern anthropological museum. The four analysis chapters investigate the roles of objects in ethnographical and geographical writing, in ideological discussions about the transformative powers of colonial trade, and in narratives about the arrival of the book in the colonial periphery. As the analysis shows, however, objects tend not to behave as they are expected to do. Instead of marking temporal differences, descriptions of objects are typically unstable and riddled with contradictions and foreground the ambivalence that characterises colonial literature.
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Gualtieri, Claudia. "The discourse of the exotic in British colonial travel writing in West Africa." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274829.

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Wang, Tsai-Yeh. "British women’s travel writings in the era of the French Revolution." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1029/.

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This thesis intends 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 prove themselves useful in their society. Many of them negotiated with and broadened the traditionally defined femininity in this age. Part Two will take Burke and Wollstonecraft’s debate as the central theme in order to discuss chronologically the British women travellers’ political responses to the Revolution controversy. When the Revolution degenerated into Terror and wars, the Burkean view became the main strand of British women travellers’ political thinking. Under the threat of Revolutionary France and during the Napoleonic Wars, a popular conservatism and patriotism developed in Britain. Part Three will use the travel journals of the women who went to France during the Amiens Truce and after the fall of Napoleon in 1814 to analyse the formation of British national identity and nationalism in this period. In the end, these educated British women both stimulated and contributed to the formation of British political and cultural identity at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Mahn, Churnjeet Kaur. "Journeys in the Palimpsest : British women's travel to Greece,1840-1914." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1317/.

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Discussions of British travel to Greece in the nineteenth century have been dominated by the work of Lord Byron. Byron’s contemporary Greeks were Orientalised, while antique Greece was personified as a captive Greek woman on the brink of compromise by the Ottomans, or a cadaver. Throughout the nineteenth century this antique vista was employed by the tourist industry. This thesis offers a consideration of the visions and vistas of Greece encountered by British women who travelled to Greece in the subsequent years, especially in the light of how commercial tourism limited or constructed their access to Greece. Commercial tourist structures were in place in Athens and other major sites of antiquity, but the majority of the women considered here travelled through a terrain that went beyond a narrow and museum staged experience of Greece. Three paradigms have been established for women travelling in Greece: the professional archaeologist, the ethnographer, and the tourist. The women archaeologist combated the patriarchal domination of the classics, not only to posit a female intellectual who could master Greece, but also reveal how antique Greece was used to underwrite patriarchal British ideologies. The ethnographers in Greece are a mixed collection of semi-professional and professional ethnographers, considered alongside more conventional travel narratives, all of which offer discussions of the modern Greek psyche trapped at a series of liminal fissures (East/West, antique/modern). Concentrating on women and geography, they subtly conflate the two to read nation in gender. However, without the sexualised aspect of their male counterparts, they read Greek women through a series of diverse practices that they identify through a close contact that could only be established between women. The modern tourist in Greece offers the most enduring and lasting type of traveller in Greece. Travelling with and against guidebooks, the discussion considers the visual technologies that helped to codify the way Greece is still seen as a tourist destination. In conjunction with this, the popular discourses denigrating women’s travel are also discussed, which offers a key reason for the dismissal of their literary output.
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Piatt, Patricia Angela. "The relevance of the ideology of separate spheres in nineteenth-century British travel literature." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490909.

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The purpose of this thesis is to assess whether the ideology of separate spheres should continue to be used in the analysis of nineteenth-century travel literature, and to detennine whether there is any justification in assuming male travellers were primarily concerned with 'public' issues and female travellers were primarily concerned with 'private' issues. To answer these questions this thesis examines a number of areas traditionally associated with each gender, and analyzes how both sexes coped with a variety of discursive pressures. It incorporates travel literature produced by both genders covering the whole of the nineteenth century, and includes travel texts from a wide range of countries. The thesis is divided into two parts, each with two chapters. The first part focuses on areas traditionally associated with male expertise and 'public' issues. Chapter One investigates the inclusion of 'technical' subjects and finds, contrary to popular belief, that both sexes addressed these subjects in similar ways, and that there is a considerable weight of material to prove that women writers were interested in a much wider range of subjects than has been appreciated. Chapter Two explores the use of the 'Action Hero Narrator' and similarly finds that, rather than being modest and reserved, many women writers were also able to employ the use of a strong narrative voice in their travel texts. \Vhat is particularly striking regarding these 'masculine' issues is not that women were able to discuss a wide range of topics, and often do so in an authoritative manner, but that the work of many male writers was not dominated by 'technical' detail, and that they did not feel the need to portray themselves as dynamic and in control at all times. The second part of this investigation focuses on areas traditionally associated with female expertise and 'private' issues. Chapter Three examines how sexual relationships were dealt with in travel literature and finds, unlike female writers who were generally rather circumspect when they addressed matters of a sexual nature, male writers were able to be much more open and direct. Chapter Four investigates how other areas of relationships, such as children, family life and the position of women, were discussed by travel writers, and finds that male travel literature often demonstrated a greater interest in these issues than travel accounts produced by female writers. This thesis offers considerable evidence to prove that, in regard to male and female travel writing, there was much more commonality in subject matter than has been assumed. It demonstrates that there was a significant degree of movement between 'public' and 'private', and that assessing material primarily from the perspective of gender can be very misleading. It emphasises the importance of examining texts produced by both sexes before any assumptions are made about gender. Based on the evidence it concludes that it is difficult to justify the application of the ideology of separate spheres in the analysis of nineteenth-century travel literature. Supplied by The British Library - 'The world's knowledge'
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Harrow, Sharon Rebecca. ""Homely adventures": Domesticity, travel, andthe gender economy of colonial difference in eighteenth-century British literature." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284078.

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"Homely Adventures": Travel and the Gender Economy of Colonial Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Literature examines the shift from adventure tales, in which characters dress up in the signs of colonial otherness, to domestic stories, in which characters are valued for their assimilation into an idealized, bourgeois identity. In so doing, I demonstrate that England's literary imagination and national identity were increasingly built upon an economy of colonial difference. In demonstrating the relationship between domesticity and difference, I analyze canonical fiction in a colonial context and read women's travel writing in the context of abolitionist poetry, natural history, and political pamphlets. Chapter one argues that Daniel Defoe's novel, Captain Singleton, moved questions of domesticity and sexuality, usually constellated around the notion of the home, into the public realm of colonial enterprise. Singleton transports his adventures to a home in England and threatens the countryside with piratical illegitimacy. Chapter two argues that Richard Cumberland's sentimental play, The West Indian, resolved colonialism's anxieties by incorporating worry about Afro-Caribbean commerce and sexuality into its domestic plot. Reworking the trope of the passionate Creole into the manageable figure of domestic husband, the sentimental script diffuses sexual danger and endorses patriarchy. Chapter three analyzes one of the scant travelogues written by a woman in the eighteenth century. Anna Maria Falconbridge's Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone challenges stereotypes of women that had become fundamental to empire by opening the domestic to exploration. In examining images of disease and representations of women in colonial contexts, I demonstrate that the connections between colonialism and domesticity in women's travel writing reorganized colonial discourse written by men. Chapter four argues that Austen's Mansfield Park represents class and race-mixing as dangerous excesses that threaten the ordered English countryside. Like many contemporary texts, Austen's novel views the relationship between female sexuality and labor as a way to define cultural (and moral) difference. Fanny Price and Edmund Bertram's marriage is an endorsement of patriarchal and imperial values based upon an ideology that fears the contaminating vices of cultural others whose difference is determined by the kinds of labor women perform.
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Gephardt, Katarina. "Imagined boundaries: the nation and the continent in nineteenth-century British narratives of European travel." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1070292654.

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Rupp, William H. "A new perspective on British identity : the travel journals of John Byng, 1781-1794." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/48885/.

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The Honourable John Byng (1743-1813; later fifth Viscount Torrington) was a British soldier, civil servant, and diarist who wrote fifteen accounts of his series of pleasure tours between 1781 and 1794. Unpublished in his lifetime, these accounts were re-discovered in the twentieth century and have been in print ever since. Despite their scope (Byng visited two thirds of all English and Welsh counties) and detail (he filled twenty seven manuscript volumes totalling over 2,500 hand-written pages) his writings have been used only sporadically and anecdotally by historians. This dissertation, therefore, seeks to re-position Byng as an historical actor and his writings as a complex historical source that requires detailed re-examination and reevaluation. Doing so reveals that Byng’s journals can inform the historigraphical discussion that surrounds the creation of a ‘British’ national identity and consciousness in the late eighteenth century. Prevailing models stress top down dynamics and external forces that caused the English, Welsh, and Scottish to band together as a Protestant elect in order to survive the onslaught of the large, Catholic, Continental powers of the time. Whilst Byng’s observations do not refute this interpretation, they present a strong argument for the inclusion of ‘sub-national’ (hamlet, village, town, county) identities and loyalties in any attempt to chart British identity formation. To demonstrate this, elements of post-colonial theory, particularly contact theory, are used to show that in Britain Byng moved through a series of encounters akin to those experienced by Europeans in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Through his reactions, it is possible to see how these various identities complemented and competed with each other, particularly important social tropes such as politeness. Family composition and relationships with friends are also discussed to illustrate how focusing on individual historical subjects can yield useful insights into broader historical issues. Finally, the experiences of Arthur Young (1741-1820) and William Cobbett (1763-1835), two other well known travellers and commentators, are used to suggest the wider ramifications of the analysis whilst making links to wider study of domestic travel.
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Clayton, Jeffrey Scott Keirstead Christopher M. "Discourses of race and disease in British and American travel writing about the South Seas 1870-1915." Auburn, Ala., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1996.

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Books on the topic "British Travel Literature"

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Travel through the British Isles. London: QED, 2007.

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Travel through the British Isles. London: QED, 2008.

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Berber, Neval. Unveiling Bosnia-Herzegovina in British travel literature (1844-1912). Pisa: Plus, 2010.

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British women's travel to Greece, 1840-1914: Travels in the palimpsest. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012.

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Macpherson, John. This land British Columbia. Markham, Ont: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1986.

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British travel writers in China--writing home to a British public, 1890-1914. Lewiston, N.Y: E. Mellen Press, 2004.

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Cocker, Mark. Loneliness and time: The story of British travel writing. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.

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An imagological dictionary of the cities in Romania represented in British travel literature, 1800-1940. [Târgu Mureș]: Editura Mentor, 2012.

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Victorian travel writing and imperial violence: British writing on Africa, 1855-1902. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

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British travel writers in Europe, 1750-1800: Authorship, gender, and national identity. Aldershot, U.K: Ashgate, 2001.

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Book chapters on the topic "British Travel Literature"

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Moroz, Grzegorz. "Gentlemen-Scholars in British Travel Writing." In Travel and Identity: Studies in Literature, Culture and Language, 9–19. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74021-8_2.

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Demata, Massimiliano. "Prejudiced Knowledge: Travel Literature in the Edinburgh Review." In British Romanticism and the Edinburgh Review, 82–101. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230554634_5.

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Miller, Brook. "The Travel Book." In America and the British Imaginary in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Literature, 23–58. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230114623_2.

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Schreiber, Paweł. "The Surveyors of Imagination: Russia in Three British Travel Books." In Travel and Identity: Studies in Literature, Culture and Language, 63–74. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74021-8_6.

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Haschemi Yekani, Elahe. "Consolidations: Dickens and Seacole." In Familial Feeling, 223–71. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58641-6_5.

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AbstractDiscussing Charles Dickens’s American Notes for General Circulation and Bleak House in conjunction with Mary Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands this chapter traces a crucial shift in mid-nineteenth-century literature which consolidates British imperialism via “enlightened” differentiation from the United States and culminates in the more paternalistic rhetoric following the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion. While travelling both authors construct conciliatory images of the English home that do not overtly challenge the sensibilities of the British reading audience. In her travel account, Seacole utilises a confident tone often directly addressing her readers more familiarly than the Black authors before her. Dickens too uses excessive overt narrative comment to promote an idea of a shared sense of indignation at lacking American manners in his travelogue and at the misguided international philanthropy of Mrs Jellyby in Bleak House. Both their consolidating tonalities rest less on complex introspection than on an explicit reassuring British familiarity. However, while Dickens increasingly understands British familial feeling as tied to whiteness, Seacole contests such racialised conceptions of national belonging.
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Neill, Anna. "Swift and the Geographers: Race, Space and Merchant Capital in Gulliver’s Travels." In British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce, 83–119. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230629226_4.

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Haschemi Yekani, Elahe. "Introduction: Provincialising the Rise of the British Novel in the Transatlantic Public Sphere." In Familial Feeling, 1–66. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58641-6_1.

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AbstractIn the introduction to Familial Feeling, Haschemi Yekani proposes a transatlantic reframing of Ian Watt’s famous work on the rise of the novel. Offering a critical overview of the intertwined histories of enslavement and modernity, this chapter proposes a focus on transatlantic entanglement already in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century to challenge the more prevalent retrospective paradigm of “writing back” in postcolonial studies. Introducing the concepts of familial feeling and entangled tonalities, Haschemi Yekani describes the affective dimension of literature that shapes notions of national belonging. This is then discussed in the book in relation to the four entangled aesthetic tonalities of familial feeling in early Black Atlantic writing and canonical British novels by Daniel Defoe, Olaudah Equiano, Ignatius Sancho, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Robert Wedderburn, Charles Dickens, and Mary Seacole. To provide context for the following literary readings, scholarship on sentimentalism and the abolition of slavery is introduced and significantly extended, especially in relation to the shifts from moral sentiment and the abolition of the slave trade in the eighteenth century to social reform and the rise of the new imperialism and colonial expansion in the nineteenth century.
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Youngs, Tim. "Travel." In The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s, 145–59. Cambridge University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108646345.010.

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Houghton, L. B. T. "Thomas Gray Prophesies Space Travel." In An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350098930.ch-018.

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Hawes, Clement. "Travel Literature and the Emergent Nation." In Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660–1714, 89–106. Cambridge University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108525251.006.

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