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- W79433093 abstract "Travel Writing was one of the most popular literary genres in the eighteenth century. Arguably, this period was a time of increased scientific and economic exploration, and numerous scientific expeditions were motivated by the ambition to ‘boldly go where no man has gone before’. At the same time, travel in the form of tourism became more widespread, especially for the middle classes. In The Idler No. 97, Samuel Johnson himself diagnoses a natural curiosity “to learn the sentiments, manners, and condition of the rest [of mankind]” 1 in his age. Travel narratives, like a package of photographs today, brought back and made aivailable the experiences of the traveller, be it scientist or tourist. As Blanton notes, their “main purpose is to introduce us to the other,” and to “dramatize an engagement between the self and the world.” 2 This engagement, however, can never be unproblematic. The other threatens the self in its identity, its selfconsciousness to be ‘on the right track’. It questions the self in its way of being and its values in profound ways. The self must react to this threat in one way or another. Several possibilities can be imagined: Firstly, the self is overwhelmed by the other and transformed utterly in its identity. Secondly, the self confirms its identity in opposition to the other. Thirdly, and probably ideally, the self is neither in opposition to the other, nor swallowed by it, and hence a less threatening interchange can take place. Unfortunately, the latter possibility is rarely realized. Instead, it is far more widespread to create a protecting superiority of the self over the other. One way to achieve the confirmation of the self is the setting up an opposition between the self as the one who knows and can understand and the other who does not know and does not understand. It is this method of ‘solving’ the conflict created by traveling and encountering the other that is the subject of my investigation. I find this pattern in my reading of the two following travel accounts, namely Samuel Johnson’s A Journey to the Western Islands, 3 and Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. 4" @default.
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