Prejudiced Knowledge: Travel Literature in the Edinburgh Review

Demata, Massimiliano

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“…The imagination would not then be racked to give the air of adventures to common incidents, or to spin sentiments out of the brain that never agitated the heart:-nor would the trivial occurrences of each day be noted with puerile exactness, and vacant indiscriminate surprise. (7: 276) A comparison with travel reviews in the early years of the Edinburgh Review as discussed by Demata (2002Demata ( ) (specifically 1802Demata ( -1807 suggests that such critiques of trivial or trifling episodes in travel writing were a standard of reviews of the period, as was an emphasis on the ideal usefulness of travel texts. Francis Jeffrey and Henry Brougham were both prolific reviewers of travel books in the early years of the Edinburgh Review and both emphasise a similar dichotomy (Demata 2002, 91).…”

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“…Indeed, as Jarvis (2012) observes, the earlier consensus (in which his own earlier work partook) was based more on literary texts such as Lord Byron's Childe Harolde than actual works of travel writing (35). Demata's (2002) and Jarvis's (2012) extensive reading of reviews of travel literature from the period (and in Jarvis's case also of private responses to travel texts) shows readers at this point exhibiting little interest in the personality of the traveller, nor in the kind of interior exploration that has come to be associated with Romantic travel writing. This is especially noticeable, they show, in relation to texts which describe journeys further than the Continent, where the travelling self takes a distinct second place to the literal "continent of information" available to the traveller (Demata 2002, 82-101, esp.…”

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Creating an “insinuating interest”: Mary Wollstonecraft's travel reviews andA Short Residence

Horrocks¹

2015

Studies in Travel Writing

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Prior to the publication of her own influential work of travel writing, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796), Mary Wollstonecraft published over 20 reviews of travel books in the Analytical Review. These ranged from essays on the aesthetics of travel, such as those by William Gilpin, to European and domestic tours, including Helen Maria Williams' reports from Revolutionary France, to voyages of exploration. This article argues that collectively this body of reviews articulates a theory of travel and travel writing, which Wollstonecraft then sought to put into practice in her own work. This theory represents an early and formative analysis of the communicative role of narrative and of the traveling "I" in travel writing, features that would later come to be seen as defining characteristics of a Romantic mode of writing about travel.

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Creating an “insinuating interest”: Mary Wollstonecraft's travel reviews andA Short Residence

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2015

Studies in Travel Writing

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“…Другой причиной повышенного внимания к литературе о путешествиях является связь авторов обозрений с творчеством деятелей шотландского просвещения. В свое время такие мыслители, как Д. Юм, А. Смит, А. Фергюсон и другие, искали в заметках путешественников иллюстрации и дополнения к своим исследованиям о человеке и обществе 2 С внешнеполитическими коллизиями связаны и обзоры, посвященные Османской империи и роли Великобритании в «Восточном вопросе». К концу XVIII в. книги о Порте пользовались невероятной популярностью.…”

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Early Reviews of Travel Literature on the Pages of «the Edinburgh Review»: Images of the East

Eremin¹

2015

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Собрание картин включало около 400 полотен, наиболее почитаемых в ту пору итальянских, фламандских, французских, голландских, испанских художников XVII века. Позднее, в 1778 г., сын старшего сына Р. Уолпола продал часть коллекции деда (204 полотна) русскому посланнику в Лондоне А. С. Мусину-Пушкину для создаваемой Екатериной II галереи Эрмитажа. Х. Уолпол был очень огорчен этой утратой. Летом 2013 г. часть коллекции Р. Уолпола выставлялась в стенах Хоултон-холла. 10 Коллекции, собранные большим любителем искусств королем Карлом I, были распроданы в период гражданской войны середины XVII в.

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“…17 As Massimiliano Demata has suggested, discussing travel literature and works on foreign policy allowed the review periodicals to consider many of their interests at once -literature, culture, foreign policy and the place of Britain in the wider world. 18 American affairs retained an irresistible fascination even for conservatives who would rather not have had to deal with themthe regular paragraphs on news from the United States published in Blackwood's, for instance, were placed ahead of those on 'British North America', or Canada. The following discussion will consider in turn the writings and speeches of these conservative politicians and journalists on the subjects of the American Revolution in retrospect, the American political system, the international role of the United States, the War of 1812, the American economy and society, and the prospects for British emigrants to America.…”

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British Visions of America, 1775-1820

Macleod¹

2015

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We defy the most learned chronologist, the most intelligent annalist, the most industrious antiquary, and the most diligent inquirer into the facts and records of past times, to produce from history, ancient or modern, any parallel for such situations. In truth, no such nation as the United States, all circumstances considered, has ever been discovered in the political hemisphere.1 So the Anti-Jacobin Review summed up the enigma that the American republic continued to constitute for conservative observers in Britain in the early decades of its existence. In this particular instance, months before the outbreak of the Anglo-American War of 1812, the writer was both confounded and outraged that 'a nation, insignificant in the scale of power, in the infancy almost of civilization, and with a circumscribed revenue, arising from sources over which she had not absolute controul' should be 'publicly discussing, in her legislative bodies, not only the propriety and necessity of war with a friendly state, but the means of carrying it on, and the objects to which it should be directed!' 2 How to square the circle of presumed American incompetence with a rising anxiety regarding its potential was an unspoken (and perhaps unrecognised dilemma) for British conservative commentators during these decades.Conservative writers articulated a largely hostile attitude towards the United States of America between 1792 and 1820. They admitted that there were some reasons to admire the achievements of the new republic; and apprehension, which was also expressed, implies some form of respect.It proved to be much too soon yet, however, for writers at this end of the British political spectrum to admit the reality of the establishment of a successful federal republic in place of their thirteen colonies, to 'embrace closure', and to accept that they had departed from the British empire without disintegrating into inter-state conflict, political collapse, economic ruin and loss of all international stature. They had been convinced that an American republic was not viable, 2 and they had fully expected the attempt to result in disaster. Their response to its realization and flourishing was a mixture of resentment, contempt and fear. Moreover, their stance on British political issues which emerged during these decades -parliamentary reform, defence of the British empire, and the question of free trade -also determined that their attitude towards America was unlikely to be appreciative. Indeed, for much of the time they were really discussing British politics through the prism of America. The American constitution, American party politics, American grievances concerning the British navigation laws, Canada, emigration to North America, and the Anglo-American relationship were all deeply interesting matters in themselves. But they also allowed conservative writers to expound scorn for representational politics involving a wide franchise and weak central government; suspicion of reformers; support for protectionist commercial policy, imperialism,...

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Prejudiced Knowledge: Travel Literature in the Edinburgh Review

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Creating an “insinuating interest”: Mary Wollstonecraft's travel reviews andA Short Residence

Creating an “insinuating interest”: Mary Wollstonecraft's travel reviews andA Short Residence

Early Reviews of Travel Literature on the Pages of «the Edinburgh Review»: Images of the East

British Visions of America, 1775-1820

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