EAN: 9783319958606

THE EXPERIENCE OF IDLING IN VICTORIAN TRAVEL TE...

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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