The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850-1901
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 characteriz...
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer International Publishing,
2018.
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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| ISBN: | 9783319958613 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A Brief Intellectual and Semantic History of 'Idleness'
- 3. Sensibilities of Seeing
- 4. The Dangers of Idle Time
- 5. Genre and Gender
- 6. The Victorian Idler's Late-Romantic Mentality
- 7. Idleness and Idling in Anna Mary Howitt's An Art Student in Munich (1853)
- 8. W. H. Hudson, his Thinking Machine, and Idle Days in Patagonia (1893)
- 9. Jerome K. Jerome's Humoristic Idleness in Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog!) (1889): Lightness and Longing
- 10. Margaret Fountaine's Diary Accounts of her Restless Idling and Butterflying
- 11. George Gissing's By The Ionian Sea (1901) as a Paradise of Idleness
- 12. Coda.