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portada The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850-1901
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
279
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.0 x 14.8 x 1.5 cm
Weight
0.35 kg.
ISBN13
9783030071080
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The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850-1901

Heidi Liedke (Author) · Palgrave MacMillan · Paperback

The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850-1901 - Liedke, Heidi

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Synopsis "The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850-1901"

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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