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

by George Dekker

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804750084
• ISBN13: 9780804750080
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 8.9"