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The travel writings of Marguerite Blessington : the most gorgeous lady on the tour / Aneta Lipska.
- Title
- The travel writings of Marguerite Blessington : the most gorgeous lady on the tour / Aneta Lipska.
- Author
- Lipska, Aneta
- Publication
- London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Anthem Press, 2017.
- ©2017
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| Text | Request in advance | PR4149.B5 Z74 2017 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxi, 155 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This book derives from the conviction that Marguerite Blessington (1788-1849) merits scholarly attention as a travel writer, and thus offers the first detailed analysis of Blessington's four travel books: 'A Tour in The Isle of Wight, in the Autumn of 1820' (1822), 'Journal of a Tour through the Netherlands to Paris in 1821' (1822), 'The Idler in Italy' (1839) and 'The Idler in France' (1841). It argues that travelling and travel writing provided Blessington with endless opportunities to reshape her public personae, demonstrating that her predilection for self-fashioning was related to the various tendencies in tourism and literature as well as the changing aesthetic and social trends in the first half of the nineteenth century."--
- Series Statement
- Anthem studies in travel
- Uniform Title
- Anthem studies in travel.
- Subject
- Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849 > Criticism and interpretation
- Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849
- 1800-1899
- Travelers' writings, English > History and criticism
- Travel writing > History > 19th century
- Travel writing
- Travelers' writings, English
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-151) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part I: Texts -- Paratexts -- From life to text -- Fictional strategies -- Part II : Images -- Natural sceneries -- Ruins and edifices -- Sacred art and religious practices -- Part III: Spaces -- Genoa: Byron's companion -- Naples: Lady of the house -- Rome and Venice: Romantic traveller -- Paris: Writer of fashion and revolution.
- ISBN
- 9781783086788
- 1783086785
- LCCN
- ^^2017006560
- OCLC
- 987070438
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library