The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850–1901 - Hardcover

Liedke, Heidi

 
9783319958606: The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850–1901
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3319958607 ISBN 13: 9783319958606
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

This book brings together theories of spatiality and mobility with a study of travel writing in the Victorian period to suggest that ‘idleness’ is an important but neglected condition of subjectivity in that era. Contrary to familiar stereotypes of ‘the Victorians’ as characterized by speed, work, and mechanized travel, this books asserts a counter-narrative in which certain writers embraced idleness in travel as a radical means to ‘re-subjectification’ and the assertion of a ‘late-Romantic’ sensibility. Attentive to the historical and literary continuities between ‘Romantic’ and ‘Victorian’, the book reconstructs the Victorian discourse on idleness. It draws on an interdisciplinary range of theorists and brings together a fresh selection of accounts viewed through the lens of cultural studies as well as accounts of publication history and author biography. Travel texts from different genres (by writers such as Anna Mary Howitt, Jerome K. Jerome and George Gissing) are brought together as representing the different facets of the spectrum of idleness in the Victorian context.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Heidi Liedke is Assistant Professor of English literature at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, and Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, UK with a new project on theatre livecasts. She obtained her PhD in English philology at the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2016. She is co-editor of the collection Muße und Moderne (Idleness and Modernity; Mohr Siebeck, to be published in 2018). Her work has appeared in Textus and Recherches et Travaux.

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Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3319958607
ISBN 13 
9783319958606
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
291
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