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

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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

AccordingtoSterne,travellerscanbeclassiﬁedasidle,inquisitive,lying,

proud,vain,splenetic;indeed,Sterneistheinitiatorofakindoftravelbook

thatmovesawayfromSamuelJohnson’sdefinitionoftravelasﬂscience

connectedwithevents”(Batten46).Sterne’ssentimentaltravellerisrather

bentonhissubjectiveresponsetotheenvironment,sothatthetopographic

accountelicitshisresponse,asadepositoryofimagesthatstimulateat

onceimpressionsandmemories,andthuslendtothetextaqualitythatis

imaginative,psychological,visualandspectral,ratherthanrealistic.Features

thatmightbeseenandyetaremissing,tracesoflossesandemptyspaces

quickenthewriter’simaginationandfeedhisresponsetowhatappearsto

bethespiritoftheplace.Inaddition,anotherimportantelementthatwill

increasinglystimulatesubjectiveresponsetoplaceisgeneratedbythenew

emphasisonvisualperceptionandthevisualexperienceofthetraveller.

ReverendWilliamGilpin,whodeﬁnedthenatureofpicturesquebeautyinhis

ObservationsontheRiverWye:andseveralpartsofSouthWales,&c.relative

chieﬂytopicturesquebeauty;madeinthesummeroftheyear1770(1782),

gavepracticalimplementationtotheaesthetictheoryhehaddevisedwith

hisDialogueontheGardensatStowe(1748);inGilpin’swake,RichardPayne

Knightwouldsuggestthatthecategoryofpicturesquenessdependedon

personalsensibilityandontheopticalnerveoftheviewer,thusmovingaway

fromGilpin’ssternformalismtoaestheticallyupgradetheromantic,moral,

subjectiveandidealistappreciationoflandscape(orestano2010;orestano

2012).Theemphasisonvisualperception,verballytranslatedintothegenreof

thesketch(Sha),wouldalsomouldandcharacterizeDickens’searlywritings,

fromhisSketchesbyBoz.IllustrativeofEverydayLifeandEvery-daypeople

(1836),toPickwickPapers(1837),inwhichMrPickwickisﬂthegreattraveller

…whosefondnessforthebeautiesofnatureevenledhimtopenetrateto

theverybordersofWalesintheheightofsummer”(PickwickPapers,p.V).

AmericanNotes,ofwhichmorelater,isgreatlyindebtedtoVictorianmass-

visualculture,asDickensdeploysthemanytechniquesoftheobserverthat

makeretinalperceptionrelevantalthoughunreliable:akindofuselesstoolfor

thepenoftheinformedtraveller,butausefuldevicewhenthewriter’sdeepest

feelings,fearsanddesires,aretriggeredandbroughtintolight(Crary).

DescribingtheNewWorld:PracticalTravelogues

andPoliticalIssues

Aftertherevolution,whichmarkedAmericanindependence,andtheAnglo-

AmericanWarof1812-1814,exchangebetweentheUnitedStatesand

Englandbecamemoreandmorefrequent.Severaltravelbooksdidfollow

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