Travel and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

Magdalena Pypeć, Przemysław Uściński

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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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. 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

QuestorTravel:AMapfromAntiquity

Questortravel?Theaimofthepresentessayistoillustratethenatureof

tworemarkablydifferentrepresentationsoftheUnitedStates,namely

AmericanNotes.ForGeneralCirculation(1842)byCharlesDickens,andNorth

America(1862)byAnthonyTrollope.Atacertainpointintheirlives,thosetwo

eminentVictorianwritersofﬁctionwrestledwithadiferentgenre,thetravel

book,withresults,Isuggest,thatoferaprismaticviewnotonlyoftheplaces

DickensandTrollopevisitedwithinthecultural-historicalcontextoftheage,

butalsoofthecapabilityofsuchatraditionalgenretoenclose,relateand

illuminatetheresponseofthevisitortothespiritoftheplace.Inasmuchas

theyrevealtheauthors’deeplydivergentattitudes,thesetwobooksabout

theUnitedStatesmaybeviewedaseitheraﬂquest”oraﬂtravelbook.”

InKindsofLiterature.AnIntroductiontotheTheoryofGenresandModes,

AlastairFowlerremindsusthatﬂAmbiguityofliterarystatusisconfined

toafewgenres….Especiallylettersandtravelbooks”(11).Inhisstudyof

earlytravelsbetween1500and1720,WilliamH.Shermanincludesﬁgures

asdiferentaserrantknights,merchants,explorers,colonisers,andremarks

thatﬂearlymoderntravelwritingwassovariedthatitmaynotevenbe

appropriatetodescribeitasasinglegenre”(30).Travelbooksindeedhadbeen

oferingthekindofliterarydiscoursethatwouldeasilymetamorphoseinto

autobiography,intoletters,intosatire,aswellasintothescientiﬁcaccount,

and,lateron,theBaedekergenre.Suchforms,however,despitetheambiguity

thattendedtoconcealtheprimarythemeofthetravelaccount,hadanancient

aristocraticlineage.Thisistheelementthat,eventoday,allowstodraw

adistinctionbetweenquestandtravel.Travelsborderingonthequestmode

couldboastoffamousancestors,suchasHomer’sOdysseyandVergil’sAeneid,

JohnBunyan’sThePilgrim’sProgress(1678),JonathanSwift’sGulliver’sTravels

(1726),butalsorecentclassicslikeFrankLymanBaum’sTheWizardofOz

(1900),J.R.R.Tolkien’sTheHobbit,orThereandBackAgain(1937),Richard

Adams’sWatershipDown(1972).Whatthesetextsshareisthemantraﬂthereis

noplacelikehome”voicedbyyoungDorothyinBaum’smasterpiecelwhether

itbetheoriginalhomemotivatingthehero’sreturn,ortheattemptatﬁnding

andfoundinganewhome,beitevenasymboliccountryofthemind.Such

questsinvolveachallenge,andasaresultimplyself-discovery.Toattainanew

homemeanstoaccomplishapersonal,sometimeacollective,goal.Inageneral

wayitcouldbemaintainedthatinqueststhefocusisontheprotagonist,

ratherthanontheterritoryexplored.onthecontrary,intravelbooksthefocus

insistsontheterritory,ratherthanonthetraveller:withalltheexceptionsand

oscillationsdeterminedbyhistory,culturalcontext,fashion.

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