The Grand Tour Diary of Frederica Murray, 1819-1820

The Grand Tour Diary of Frederica Murray, 1819-1820
Author: Mark Guscin
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2024-01-15
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1527564819

In 1819, the Murray family set out on one of the last Grand Tours before railways forever changed the way people travelled. The eldest daughter of the Second Earl of Mansfield, Lady Frederica Murray (later Stanhope, as she married James Hamilton Stanhope, the youngest son of the 3rd Earl of Stanhope) kept a diary on the tour, which this book explores in detail. The diary has never been published (not even mentioned in any of the Grand Tour literature) and is a fascinating and essential look at the Murray/Mansfield family, and Europe at the time. Frederica was a deeply observant traveller and noted down numerous picturesque and historical details; she was also very open and sometimes even cutting in her opinions when she came across something or someone she did not like. Frederica’s diary shows a very mature 19-year-old with clear opinions on art, literature and the world around her. This book will therefore be interesting for scholars of travel, Grand Tours, and Regency England and its society, as well as anyone with an interest in travel and history.

British Satire, 1785-1840, Volume 3

British Satire, 1785-1840, Volume 3
Author: John Strachan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000748103

This set offers a representitive collection of the verse satire of the Romantic period, published between the mid-1780s and the mid-1830s. As well as two single-author volumes, from William Gifford and Thomas Moore, there is also a wealth of rare, unedited material.

Continental Tourism, Travel Writing, and the Consumption of Culture, 1814–1900

Continental Tourism, Travel Writing, and the Consumption of Culture, 1814–1900
Author: Benjamin Colbert
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030361462

This book explores the boundaries of British continental travel and tourism in the nineteenth century, stretching from Norway to Bulgaria, from visitors’ albums to missionary efforts, from juvenilia to joint authorship. The essay topics invoke new aesthetics of travel as consumption, travel as satire, and of the developing culture of tourism. Chronologically arranged, the book charts the growth and permutations of this new consumerist ideology of travel driven by the desires of both men and women: the insatiable appetite for new accounts of old routes as well as appropriation of the new; interart reproductions of description and illustration; and wider cultural manifestations of tourism within popular entertainment and domestic settings. Continental tourism provides multiple perspectives with wide-ranging coverage of cultural phenomena increasingly incorporated into and affected by the nineteenth-century continental tour. The essays suggest the coextension of travel alongside experiential boundaries and reveal the emergence of a consumerist attitude toward travel that persists in the present day.

New Directions in Travel Writing Studies

New Directions in Travel Writing Studies
Author: Paul Smethurst
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2015-07-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137457252

This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars establish a critical milieu for travel writing studies, as well as offer a set of exemplars in the application of theory to travel writing.

Blindness and Writing

Blindness and Writing
Author: Heather Tilley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107194210

In this innovative and important study, Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century, and demonstrates how new writing technologies for blind people had transformative effects on literary culture. Considering the ways in which visually-impaired people used textual means to shape their own identities, the book argues that blindness was also a significant trope through which writers reflected on the act of crafting literary form. Supported by an illuminating range of archival material (including unpublished letters from Wordsworth's circle, early ophthalmologic texts, embossed books, and autobiographies) this is a rich account of blind people's experience, and reveals the close, and often surprising personal engagement that canonical writers had with visual impairment. Drawing on the insights of disability studies and cultural phenomenology, Tilley highlights the importance of attending to embodied experience in the production and consumption of texts.