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The Fictions of Romantic Tourism: Radcliffe, Scott, and Mary Shelley

The Fictions of Romantic Tourism: Radcliffe, Scott, and Mary Shelley

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0804750084
ISBN13: 9780804750080
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Nov 1 2004
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.92 Depth: 8.86
Language: English

Exemplary Romantic novelists Ann Radcliffe, Sir Walter Scott, and Mary Shelley were likewise keen tourists and influential contributors to the discourse of Romantic tourism. The shaping power of this discourse--already highly developed in poetry, travel literature, and the visual arts by the time they began writing--affected not only what they saw and felt on tour but also how they imagined their greatest novels. Defining both tour and novel as privileged spaces exempt from the boring routines and hampering contingencies of ordinary life, these authors as well as many of their contemporaries and early Romantic predecessors effectively brought the tour into fiction and fiction into the tour.

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