Moving Scenes
The Aesthetics of German Travel Writing on England 1783-1820
Published on 2. December 2017
200 pages
978-1-351-19434-1 (ISBN)
Description
"Accounts of travel to England reached unprecedented levels of popularity in the German states in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Competition therefore increased for travel writers to produce travelogues which offered the most authentic, original and vibrant picture of England. The wider range of narrative strategies which travellers consequently deployed increasingly drew on the emotional responses of their audience - whether to serve a political purpose, show concern for the darker side to the Industrial Revolution or simply demonstrate the humanitarian interests of the travellers themselves. In this broad-ranging study, Alison E. Martin draws on a variety of travellers, men and women, canonical and forgotten, to chart the fascinating variety of styles and approaches which mark this highly interdisciplinary genre."
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
5,74 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-19434-1 (9781351194341)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Book
09/2008
1st Edition
Legenda
€133.69
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Person
Alison E. Martin
Content
Introduction 1. Theatre and Orality in Karl Philipp Moritz's Reisen eines Deutschen in England im Jahr 1782 2. Female Enquiry and the Ordering of Knowledge: Sophie von La Roche and the Problem of Sensibility 3. Die Feder soll unser Sprachrohr seyn': Esther Gad's Briefe waehrend meines Aufenthalts in England und Portugal 4. Light and Landscape in Carl Gottlieb Horstig's Reise nach Frankreich, England und Holland zu Anfange des Jahres 1803 5. Sympathy and Spectacle: Visual Representation in Johanna Schopenhauer's Reise durch England und Schottland 6. August Hermann Niemeyer: 'Die bodenlose Tiefe der menschlichen Seele' 7. Conclusions
