All Outputs (13)

A short history of humour in travel writing (2023)
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Until comparatively recent times, travel writing has not been a genre renowned for its humorous qualities. Yet nothing demonstrates the cultural and historical relativity of humour as clearly as the evolution of travel writing from the early nineteen... Read More about A short history of humour in travel writing.

French hash? Southey's editing of the Annual Anthology (2020)
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Robert Southey’s Annual Anthology, which aimed to present a selection of current poetry and drew largely on his own friends and acquaintances, ran for just two volumes between 1799 and 1800. Although critics have shed light on individual poems and re... Read More about French hash? Southey's editing of the Annual Anthology.

What am I still doing here? Travel, travel writing, and old age (2018)
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This article offers preliminary thoughts on travel writing from a gerontological perspective. Gender, race, and sexuality have provided important analytical frames for travel writing studies but age has yet to function as a topic or point of referenc... Read More about What am I still doing here? Travel, travel writing, and old age.

Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the Rhine Tour of 1828 (2017)
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This essay explores Coleridge's and Wordsworth's Continental "reunion tour" in the summer of 1828. It asks why the poetic output of this tour was so meagre, on both sides, and considers this in the context of their lives and literary careers at that... Read More about Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the Rhine Tour of 1828.

In Search of Robert Lovell: Poet and Pantisocrat (2016)
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© 2016 British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Robert Lovell (1771-1796) is known chiefly as one of the apostles of the ill-fated Pantisocratic emigration scheme conceived by Coleridge and Southey. This essay considers Lovell’s life and work... Read More about In Search of Robert Lovell: Poet and Pantisocrat.

Hydromania: Perspectives on Romantic Swimming (2015)
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The author explores the origins and context of the Romantic generation’s passion for swimming, considers some of the literary meanings and uses of swimming in writing of that period, and looks in particular at the way swimming features in the lives a... Read More about Hydromania: Perspectives on Romantic Swimming.

William beckford: Travel writer, travel reader (2014)
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© The Author 2013. William Beckford (1760-1844) is known chiefly as a collector, bibliophile, Orientalist, and author of the Gothic novel Vathek. In his early life, he was also an inveterate traveller, and the published and unpublished writing he pro... Read More about William beckford: Travel writer, travel reader.

Tales of the transatlantic (2013)
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Contesting the ‘secret grudge’: the image of America in the Edinburgh Review, 1803-1829 (2009)
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Curious fame: the literary relevance of Alexander Mackenzie reconsidered (2007)
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Self-discovery from Byron to Raban: The long afterlife of romantic travel (2005)
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Despite the heterogeneity of Romantic-era travel writing, the idea of Romantic travel has become all but identified with a’subjective turn’ in the late eighteenth century, and with narratives of self-realisation or self-discovery, illustrated here ch... Read More about Self-discovery from Byron to Raban: The long afterlife of romantic travel.

The glory of motion: DeQuincey, travel and romanticism (2004)
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The wages of travel: Wordsworth and the memorial tour of 1820 (2001)
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