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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Named Person: | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Walter Scott; Ann Radcliffe; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Walter Scott, Sir; Ann Ward Radcliffe; Ann Radcliffe; Walter Scott; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Mary Shelley; Walter Scott; Ann Radcliffe; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Ann Radcliffe; Walter Scott |
Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
George Dekker |
ISBN: | 0804750084 9780804750080 |
OCLC Number: | 55729716 |
Description: | x, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The fictions of romantic tourism -- The fictionality of the romantic novel -- Radcliffe the tourist -- Radcliffe and the fictions of spiritual tourism -- Tourist transport in Waverley and The heart of mid-Lothian -- Scott the tourist : Guy Mannering and the Turner illustrations -- Mary Shelley and the fictions of companionable tourism -- Fictions of pilgrimage : Italy's "magical and memorable abodes." |
Responsibility: | George G. Dekker. |
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Abstract:
Romantic novelists Ann Radcliffe, Sir Walter Scott, and Mary Shelley were keen tourists and influential contributors to the discourse of Romantic tourism. The shaping power of this discourse affected not only what they saw and felt on tour but also how they imagined their greatest novels. This is a study of these two cultural innovations.
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