Social Criticism and Romantic Travel Writing: Letters from Spain (1822) by José María Blanco White

Authors

  • Christiane Schwab Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Institute of European Ethnology Oettingenstr. 67 80538 Munich , Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Dpto. de Etnología Europea

Abstract

Abstract: This contribution discusses the exploitation of the narratives of travel within the Letters from Spain (1822) by José María Blanco White.  After introducing the author and his biographical circumstances, the Letters will be contextualized within the discursive fields they unite, such as contemporary history, autobiography, essayistic social criticism, and the romantic travel account. In this effect, I focus on the cognitive and ideological forms of perception of the author and the expected readership, the representation of the other, and the interrelations of the travel discourse with other lines of interpreting the altering realities at the beginning of the 19th century.

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Author Biography

  • Christiane Schwab, Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Institute of European Ethnology Oettingenstr. 67 80538 Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Dpto. de Etnología Europea

    Christiane Schwab is currently a researcher and a lecturer at the Institute of European Ethnology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich. She has worked as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and Her research interest center on urban anthropology, Spanish cultural history and historical anthropology. 

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Published

2013-05-10

Issue

No. 4 (2013)

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Social Criticism and Romantic Travel Writing: Letters from Spain (1822) by José María Blanco White. (2013). Castilla. Estudios De Literatura, 4, 350-367. https://revistas.uva.es/index.php/castilla/article/view/175