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French romantic travel writing : Chateaubriand to Nerval /

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In the first half of the nineteenth century most leading French Romantic authors wrote travel books. This book is the first study exclusively devoted to surveying the travelogues they produced and the reasons for, and significance of, this trend. Whilst 'the journey' was one of Romanticism...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thompson, C. W. (Christopher W.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Travelers' writings, French > History and criticism.
French literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Romanticism > France.
French literature.
Romanticism.
Travelers' writings, French.
France.
Reiseliteratur.
Französisch.
Romantik.
Reseskildringar > Frankrike.
Romantiken > Frankrike.
1800 - 1899
Geschichte 1802-1867.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The birth of a fashion (1) : empire and exile
  • The birth of a fashion (2) : high hopes restored
  • From fashion to ritual : itineraries and incentives
  • The pleasures and challenges of subjectivity : from dreams, humour, and self-consciousness to autobiography
  • Between dreams, desires, and realities (1) : Switzerland and the romantic 'North'
  • Between dreams, desires, and realities (2) : the 'Orient' and Spain
  • Between dreams, desires, and realities (3) : the 'Orient' of the Maghreb and the Old Levant
  • Women travellers and autobiography
  • The wish to guide and to inform : the genre under pressure
  • Nature, science, vision
  • Intertextuality and the quest for literary energy
  • From avatars to decadence and future directions.