Travel and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

Magdalena Pypeć, Przemysław Uściński

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978-83-235-5906-1

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https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323559061

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Uniwersytet Warszawski

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2022

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220

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ONIX MARC21

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. Travel and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century British Writing. Red. Pypeć, Magdalena; Uściński, Przemysław . Warszawa: Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2022, 220 s. ISBN 978-83-235-5906-1, doi: https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323559061

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. Red. Pypeć, Magdalena; Uściński, Przemysław. Travel and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century British Writing [baza danych online] Warszawa: Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2022 [dostęp: 07 07 2024]. Dostęp w Ibuk Libra: https://libra.ibuk.pl/reader/travel-and-otherness-in-nineteenth-century-british-writing-magdalena-pypec-przemyslaw-283973. doi: https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323559061

wiek XIX, podróż, inność, travel, literatura brytyjska, XIX century, british literature, wiek XVIII, strategie tekstowe, XVIII century, otherness, text strategies

The essays collected in the volume cover a wide selection of texts representing different genres, literary currents and ideological perspectives to offer diverse interpretative insights into the cultural significance of travel and foreignness in B...

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ISBN/ISSN:

978-83-235-5906-1

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323559061

Wydawnictwo:

Uniwersytet Warszawski

Rok wydania:

2022

Liczba stron:

220

XML:ISBN/ISSN:

ONIX MARC21

From the Editors7
Part One: Journeys, Voyages, QuestsFrancesca OrestanoCharles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and the Spirit of the American Place17
Michael HollingtonDisappointment and Discovery: Dickens’s Pictures from Italy in the Context of Travel Writings by Goethe and George Eliot35
Julia Helena Wilde“The blessed isles” and the “native shore”: Depictionsof the Earthly Paradise and Ireland in “The Voyage of St. Brendan” by Denis Florence MacCarthy49
Henry Lansdell’s Repeat Journeys to Central Asia: Between Self-censorship and Disclosure69
Magdalena OżarskaThe Acts of Writing and Reading Mary and Dorothy Wordsworths’ 1820 Continental Travel Journals: An Intertextual Perspective87
Romantic Wanderers: The Peripatetic Mode in Wordsworthand Coleridge97
Part Two: The Exotic and the ForeignFrançoise BessonThe Quest for Otherness as a Step to Awareness: Henry Russell’s Travels to Asia117
Jacek MydlaThe Exotic and the Foreign in the Sherlock Holmes Canon:Narratives of Displacement149
Magdalena PypećThe Rhetoric of Imperial Gothic in The Mystery of Edwin Drood165
Dorota Osińska“She is a pregnant horror as she stands”: Medea and the Other in Amy Levy’s “Medea. A Fragment in Drama Form”197
Notes on Contributors215

Francescaorestano

UniversityofMilan

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9531-2311

CharlesDickens,AnthonyTrollope,

andtheSpiritoftheAmericanPlace

Abstract:AmapoftravelwritingfromantiquitytotheVictorianageopensthis

reﬂectiononthedistinctionbetweenquestandtravel,astwomodesexisting

withinthesamegenre,whichyetcanharbouravarietyofdiscourses,ranging

fromletterstoautobiography,fromsatireandfantasytothescientiﬁcaccountand

theBaedekerstyle.However,despitethemanynarrativemasksadoptedbytravel

writing,andtheessentialambiguityitsliterarydiscoursemayadopt,itcanbe

arguedthatquestandtravelcanstillbeseenasbearingdistinctfeatures,inasmuch

asthepersonalityandtheﬁnalaimsofthetravellerprovideelementsofresponseto

theplacevisitedthatdispeltheambiguityofthegenre.IntheXIXcentury,history,

culture,aestheticsandvisualcultureenhancethetraveller’sresponsetothespiritof

theplace.CharlesDickens’sAmericanNotesandAnthonyTrollope’sNorthAmerica,

respectivelypublishedin1842and1862,whileaccountingforthewriters’experience

intheUnitedStates,areremarkablydissimilar.MycontentionisthatinDickens’s

casethetraveloguetakestheshapeandnatureofaquest:ajourneythathadstarted

underthebestauspicesendedupinbitterdisappointmentasthewriterdidnot

compromisewithlocalnewspapersonhispleaforinternationalcopyright;Dickens’s

Americanexperienceisloadedwithspectralimagesthatmakeitnightmarishand,on

thewhole,unpleasant.ForTrollope,whostartedwiththebestintentionstoprovide

readerswithplentyofinformation,theplaceprovesungraspable,unmanageable,

despitepagesofﬁguresandtablesofproducts,prices,values.InTrollope’scase,for

diferentreasons,thespiritoftheplaceinstigatesakindofresponsethatproduces,

insteadofthebestpossibletravelbook,anunwieldydocumentaryaccountof

theUnitedStatesin1862.

Keywords:travelwriting,classics,Victorians,UnitedStates,CharlesDickens,

AnthonyTrollope

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