French Romantic Travel Writing
Chateaubriand to Nerval
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 December 2011
- ISBN 9780199233540
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages466 pages
- Size 241x162x32 mm
- Weight 874 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A pioneering overview of the travel books produced by fourteen French Romantic writers - including Chateaubriand, Staël, Stendhal, Hugo, Nerval, Sand, Mérimée, Dumas, and Tristan - whose journeys ranged from Peru to Russia and from North America to North Africa and the Near East.
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In the first half of the nineteenth century most leading French Romantic authors wrote travel books. French Romantic Travel Writing is the first study exclusively devoted to surveying the travelogues they produced and the reasons for, and significance of, this trend. Whilst 'the journey' was one of Romanticism's central images, suggesting as it did a dynamic, expanding, and evermore complex world in which artists' lives were increasingly experienced as wanderings and endless quests, the fashion for Romantic travel books was more marked in France than in Germany or England. Chateaubriand, Staël, Stendhal, Nodier, Hugo, Lamartine, Nerval, Gautier, Sand, Custine, Quinet, Mérimée, Dumas, and Tristan all wrote one or more travelogues, including at least four masterpieces-Hugo's Le Rhin (1842), Nerval's Voyage en Orient (1851), and Stendhal's two Rome, Naples et Florence (1817 and 1826). The book explores the reasons for this difference from England and Germany. These include French foreign and cultural policies, as well as the particular needs of Parisian publishers. It puts forward the case for the collective achievement of these Romantic travel books, compared to those of most later writers in nineteenth-century France. A distinctive feature of the survey is its belief in the value of concentrating on the text of these books as published by their authors, as opposed to manuscript and peripheral material.
ouvrage majeur sur la littérature de voyage en France à l'époque romantique [...] on a rarement vu une connaissance aussi précise des textes sollicités [...] l'auteur [...] n'est pas pour autant insensible aux aspects politiques du Voyage, dont il montre bien qu'il contribue [...] à réinventer l'image de la France et sa place dans le monde [...] un ouvrage très substantiel dont on peut penser qu'il fera date.
Table of Contents:
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Introduction
The Birth of a Fashion (1): Empire and Exile
The Birth of a Fashion (2): High Hopes Restored
From Fashion to Ritual: Itineraries and Incentives
The Pleasures and Challenges of Subjectivity: From Dreams, Humour, and Self-Consciousness to Autobiography
Between Dreams, Desires, and Realities (1): Switzerland and the Romantic 'North'
Between Dreams, Desires, and Realities (2): The 'Orient' and Spain Towards the 'Orient'
Between Dreams, Desires, and Realities (3): The 'Orient' of the Maghreb and the Old Levant
Women Travellers and Autobiography
The Wish to Guide and to Inform: The Genre under Pressure
Nature, Science, Vision
Intertextuality and the Quest for Literary Energy
Avatars to Decadence and Future Directions
Select Bibliography
Index
