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This book focuses on a variety of travellers, men and women, to chart the fascinating variety of styles and approaches which mark the German travel writing. It examines some of the rhetorical practices deployed in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century travel writing on England.
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Through close readings, Martin (English literature, Martin-Luther-U, Halle-Wittenberg) analyzes some of the rhetorical practices deployed in travel writing during the late 18th and early 19th centuries to demonstrate how travelers were both moving figures and being moved by what they observed. She asks what the authors sought to achieve by appealing to their readers' sensibilities, and what this focus on the susceptibility of feeling reveals about how the travelers perceived themselves. Another concern is the range of impulses that travel writing gained from other aesthetic practices, not all of them literary, for the purpose of sympathetic representation. Among the writers she considers are Sophie von La Roche, Esther Gad, Carl Gottlieb, and August Hermann Niemayer. Quotations are in German with English translation following. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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