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Title The idea of Europe in British travel narratives, 1789-1914 / Katarina Gephardt.
Author Gephardt, Katarina, author.
Publisher Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2014]
Copyright ©2014


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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 9  English E756.T72 GEP  

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Description x, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN 9781472429544 hardback : alkaline paper
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: imagining the continent -- Hybrid gardens: nationalization of taste, travel writing, and Ann Radcliffe's Continental landscape -- The occidentalist costume: Lord Byron and travelers' perspectives on Eastern Europe -- From the prison of the nation: tourism, Anglo-Italian dialogue, and mid-Victorian remapping of Italy -- The mirror image: British travel writing and Bram Stoker's Eastern Europe colonial discourse and the mapping of Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century -- Postscript "dense Westerners" and persistent peripheries: Edwardian fictions of Europe and beyond.
Library Class English E756.T72
Subject Travelers' writings, English -- Europe -- History and criticism.
Europe -- Description and travel.
English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Europe -- In literature.
National characteristics in literature.

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