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‘Keep Moving!’: Early Nineteenth-Century Travel Culture ‘Keep Moving!’: Early Nineteenth-Century Travel Culture
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The Making of the Byronic Traveller The Making of the Byronic Traveller
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The Politics of Byronic Travel: Cosmopolitanism, Orientalism, Globalism The Politics of Byronic Travel: Cosmopolitanism, Orientalism, Globalism
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Italy: Byron Exiled and Translated Italy: Byron Exiled and Translated
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Suggested Reading Suggested Reading
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44 Byron and Travel
Get accessCarl Thompson is Reader in Romantic Literature at the University of Surrey. He has written extensively on both Romanticism and travel writing, with his principal publications being the monographs The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination (2007) and Travel Writing (2011), and scholarly editions of Romantic-Era Shipwreck Narratives (2007) and Women’s Travel Writings in India (2020). He has also edited a collection of essays on Shipwreck in Art and Literature (2013) and is currently writing a monograph on the Romantic-era travel writer Maria Graham.
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Published:22 October 2024
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Abstract
This chapter addresses the centrality of travel to Lord Byron’s career and poetic creativity. The first section focuses on the travel poem that made Byron famous, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: it discusses Byron’s Mediterranean tour of 1809–11, the poet’s cosmopolitan persona in Childe Harold, and the poem’s influence on later touristic practices. The second section explores the complex political implications of Byron’s self-fashioning as a transgressive, alienated traveller allegedly at odds with his homeland. The final section then considers the period after 1816 when Byron became a permanent exile from Britain. Here travel arguably gave way to transculturation, as Byron found himself increasingly ‘Italianized’ by his extended residence in that country. This makes Byron’s post-1816 writings a revealing case study of what it means not just to be performatively cosmopolitan but to actually cross cultural borders and so acquire a more genuinely hybrid, ‘hyphenated’ cultural identity.
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