Continental Tourism, Travel Writing, and the Consumption of Culture, 1814–1900

Benjamin Colbert is a Reader in English Literature at the University of Wolverhampton and Co-Editor of European Romantic Review. He is the author of Shelley's Eye: Travel Writing and Aesthetic Vision and has edited a number of essay collections and scholarly editions of travel writing. He founded and maintains the online open-access database, Women's Travel Writing, 1780–1840. Lucy Morrison is a Professor of English and Director of the University Honors Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Co-author of A Mary Shelley Encyclopedia, she has published articles on authors ranging from John Keats to Charlotte Brontë as well as editing essay collections and scholarly editions of post-Napoleonic travel narratives. She is currently Co-Editor of European Romantic Review.

“Each of the chapter contributions to Continental Tourism exhibits close attention to the biographical and cultural contexts that shape their subjects. … The book should prove of equal interest to scholars interested in the development of travel writing as a form across the century.” (Christopher M. Keirstead, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (2), 2023)

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Ephemeral Entertainment: Montagnes Russes and Movement in Paris.- Chapter 3: The Album of the Fathers and the Father of all Albums: Inscribing Wonder and Loss in the Grande Chartreuse.- Chapter 4: “Dieting with Antiquity”: Eating and Drinking with the Ancients at Pompeii.- Chapter 5: “Raw Productions . . . Exported in Abundance”: Continental Tourism in Satire, 1815-1828.- Chapter 6: Ruskin in the 1830s: Emerging Authorship and the Print Culture of Travel.- Chapter 7: Upper-Class Travel with a Political Slant: the Destinies of Nations and Empires through the Eyes of Lord and Lady Strangford.- Chapter 8: Beyond the Grand Tour: Norway and the Nineteenth-Century British Traveller.- Chapter 9: Grand Tourists, Missionary Travelers, and Frances Stenhouse.- Chapter 10: Gender, Genre, and Geography in Ménie Dowie’s A Girl in the Karpathians.- Chapter 11: Travelers in the Wilderness: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Transformative Travels