Creating an “insinuating interest”: Mary Wollstonecraft's travel reviews and<i>A Short Residence</i>

Horrocks, Ingrid

doi:10.1080/13645145.2014.994925

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“…This wanderlust also underpins the writings of travellers such as Andrew Burnaby, the influential explorer and navigator William Dampier and philanthropist and traveller Jonas Hanway. Mary Wollstonecraft published her own influential work of travel writing, “Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, 1796”, and also produced over 20 reviews of travel books in the analytic review, ranging from the aesthetics of travel such as those by William Gilpin, to European and domestic tours (Horrocks, 2015).…”

Section: William Gilpin and Picturesque Travel Writingmentioning

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The picturesque roots of impression management: framing, Claude glass and “rose”-tinted lens?

McBride,

Atkins,

Atkins

2023

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PurposeThis paper explores the way in which industrial pollution has been expressed in the narrative accounts of nature, landscape and industry by William Gilpin in his 18th-century picturesque travel writings. A positive description of pollution is generally outdated and unacceptable in the current society. The authors contrast his “picturesque” view with the contemporary perception of industrial pollution, reflect on these early accounts of industrial impacts as representing the roots of impression management and use the analysis to inform current accounting.Design/methodology/approachThe research uses an interpretive content analysis of the text to draw out themes and features of impression management. Goffman's impression management is the theoretical lens through which Gilpin's travel accounts are interpreted, considering this microhistory through a thematic research approach. The picturesque accounts are explored with reference to the context of impression management.FindingsGilpin's travel writings and the “Picturesque” aesthetic movement, it appears, constructed a social reality around negative industrial externalities such as air pollution and indeed around humans' impact on nature, through a lens which described pollution as adding aesthetically to the natural landscape. The lens through which the picturesque tourist viewed and expressed negative externalities involved quite literally the tourists' tricks of the trade, Claude glass, called also Gray's glass, a tinted lens to frame the view.Originality/valueThe paper adds to the wealth of literature in accounting and business pertaining to the ways in which companies socially construct reality through their accounts and links closely to the impression management literature in accounting. There is also a body of literature relating to the use of images and photographs in published corporate reports, which again is linked to impression management as well as to a growing literature exploring the potential for the aesthetic influence in accounting and corporate communication. Further, this paper contributes to the growing body of research into the historical roots of environmental reporting.

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Section: William Gilpin and Picturesque Travel Writingmentioning

confidence: 99%