The suffering traveller and the Romantic imagination /
Thompson explores the romance that can attach to the notion of suffering in travel, and the importance of the persona of 'suffering traveller' for Romantic writers and travellers. He considers how and why the Romantics typically chose to imitate the hapless protagonists of these accounts.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Oxford English monographs.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Thompson explores the romance that can attach to the notion of suffering in travel, and the importance of the persona of 'suffering traveller' for Romantic writers and travellers. He considers how and why the Romantics typically chose to imitate the hapless protagonists of these accounts. |
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| Item Description: | Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2001. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 299 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-291) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191531927 0191531928 9780191717413 019171741X 128116416X 9781281164162 |