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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827459503321

Autore

Kassis Dimitrios

Titolo

Representations of the North in Victorian travel literature / / by Dimitrios Kassis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-7515-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Disciplina

820.9008

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English literature - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PART I""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""CHAPTER THREE""; ""PART II""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""PART III""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""PART IV""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""PART V""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""PART VI""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""PART VII""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""

Sommario/riassunto

Travel literature has always been associated with the construction of utopias which were founded on the idea of unknown lands. During their journeys in foreign lands, British travelers tended to formulate various critical opinions based on their background knowledge of the country visited. Their attempts to interpret other nations were often misinterpretations of the peoples in question as the Other. At the close of the eighteenth century, when Grand Tourism started to fade away and travelling became a mainstream activity for the middle-class Briton, travel writers attempted to identify with