The experience of Idling in Victorian travel texts, 1850--1901 / Heidi Liedke.
2018
PR756.T72
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Title
The experience of Idling in Victorian travel texts, 1850--1901 / Heidi Liedke.
Author
Liedke, Heidi, author.
ISBN
9783319958613 (electronic book)
3319958615 (electronic book)
9783319958606
3319958607
3319958615 (electronic book)
9783319958606
3319958607
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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PR756.T72
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.932
Summary
This book brings together theories of spatiality and mobility with a study of travel writing in the Victorian period to suggest that?idleness? is an important but neglected condition of subjectivity in that era. Contrary to familiar stereotypes of?the Victorians? as characterized by speed, work, and mechanized travel, this books asserts a counter-narrative in which certain writers embraced idleness in travel as a radical means to?re-subjectification? and the assertion of a?late-Romantic? sensibility. Attentive to the historical and literary continuities between?Romantic? and?Victorian?, the book reconstructs the Victorian discourse on idleness. It draws on an interdisciplinary range of theorists and brings together a fresh selection of accounts viewed through the lens of cultural studies as well as accounts of publication history and author biography. Travel texts from different genres (by writers such as Anna Mary Howitt, Jerome K. Jerome and George Gissing) are brought together as representing the different facets of the spectrum of idleness in the Victorian context.
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