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- Title
Excursions of Pleasure: The Travel Writing of the Sobieski Stuarts.
- Authors
Buchanan, Craig
- Abstract
Traditional summaries of the Sobieski Stuart brothers' publications have tended to focus on their novel, Tales of the Century , published in 1846, and their various volumes of poetry, published between 1822 and 1869. Recent research has uncovered a considerable number of previously unattributed pieces written by the brothers in the 1830s, and published anonymously in journals of the period. This paper builds upon that work, identifying a number of pieces of travel literature penned by the brothers and their immediate family members in the 1850s, before arguing that the pair were early converts to the genre, having written a series of travel articles for a Glasgow periodical, The Day , in 1832. Taken together, these newly attributed pieces allow us to examine a hitherto unexplored facet of the brothers' work, and potentially influence how modern scholars consider their better-known publications, not least in the areas of humour, historical accuracy, and geographical diversity.
- Subjects
TRAVEL literature; WIT &; humor; TRAVEL writing; TOURISM; PERIODICALS
- Publication
Scottish Literary Review, 2023, Vol 15, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1756-5634
- Publication type
Article