The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination

by Carl Thompson

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Carl Thompson explores the romance that can attach to the notion of suffering in travel, and the importance of the persona of 'suffering traveller' in the Romantic self-fashionings of figures such as Wordsworth and Byron. Situating such self-fashionings in the context of the upsurge of tourism in the late eighteenth century, he shows how the Romantics sought to differentiate themselves from mere tourists by following alternative models, and alternative...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199259984

ISBN13:9780199259984

Release Date:July 2007

Publisher:Clarendon Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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