The suffering traveller and the Romantic imagination [electronic resource] / Carl Thompson.

By:

Thompson, Carl (Carl Edward)

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Oxford eBooks

Series: Oxford English monographsPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon, c2007.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 299 p.)ISBN:

9780199259984

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:

820.932 22

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PR756.T72

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Summary: 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.

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.