Representations of the North in Victorian travel literature / by Dimitrios Kassis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kassis, Dimitrios, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Travel literature has always been associated with the construction of utopias which were founded on the idea of unknown lands. During their journeys in foreign lands, British travelers tended to formulate various critical opinions based on their background knowledge of the country visited. Their attempts to interpret other nations were often misinterpretations of the peoples in question as the Other. At the close of the eighteenth century, when Grand Tourism started to fade away and travelling became a mainstream activity for the middle-class Briton, travel writers attempted to identify with

Contents:

""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PART I""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""CHAPTER THREE""; ""PART II""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""PART III""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""PART IV""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""PART V""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""PART VI""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""PART VII""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 20, 2015).

ISBN:

1-4438-7515-5

OCLC:

903318547