The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination

The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination
Author: Carl Thompson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2007-05-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0199259984

Thompson explores the romance that can attach to the notion of suffering in travel, and the importance of the persona of 'suffering traveller' for Romantic writers and travellers. He considers how and why the Romantics typically chose to imitate the hapless protagonists of these accounts