The suffering traveller and the Romantic imagination [electronic resource] / Carl Thompson.
Series: Oxford English monographsPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon, c2007.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 299 p.)ISBN:- 9780199259984
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Travel
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Travel
- Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism
- Travel in literature
- Explorers in literature
- Adventure and adventurers in literature
- Shipwrecks in literature
- Travel -- Psychological aspects
- Travel -- Philosophy
- Romanticism -- Great Britain
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- PR756.T72

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.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.