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ABSTRACT By analysing the history, conventions, and status of the travel book as a genre, this article highlights Dickens’s inimitable departures from its acknowledged form in Pictures from Italy (1846). This text purports to be an exception among travel books, to the extent that in today’s parlance Dickens is at once keen on visual impressions enhanced by the codes of optical technology; his viewpoint, similes, analogies, send the reader constantly back to England and himself. Such a strategy of displaced topicality affects Dickens’s portrayal of Italy, as it is likely to produce a belated shock of recognition when the condition of England, in later years, suggests similarities with Italy and with the rule of Baroque exceptions occurring in Italy as well as in England.
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Founded in 1997 by Tim Youngs, Studies in Travel Writing is an international, refereed journal dedicated to research on travel texts and to scholarly approaches to them. Unrestricted by period or region of study, the journal allows for specific contexts of travel writing to be established and for the application of a range of scholarly and critical approaches. It welcomes contributions from within, between or across academic disciplines; from senior scholars and from those at the start of their careers. It also publishes original interviews with travel writers, special themed issues, and book reviews.
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