Defoe and Ruins: The Making of British Landscape and Its Temporality
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This essay investigates Daniel Defoe’s domestic travelogue, A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-26), with a focus on his deployment of the past and the present. As is well established, A Tour is based on Defoe’s firsthand experience with the southern parts of England and Scotland and his incorporation of other existing sources such as William Camden’s Britannia. I situate my own reading of A Tour alongside previous studies, focusing particularly on the problematic overlap between what Defoe claims to be his original accounts accumulated over the course of many years (and even a decade) and late seventeenth-century topographical literature such as regional surveys and travel narratives. The problematics I explore hinge on the assumption that A Tour is a semi-fictional narrative, one that is crafted to endorse a particular version of modern nationhood Defoe envisions based on the perpetual motion of British commerce and trade. In this context, Defoe’s preoccupation with “decay” and “ruins” provides a telling contrast to the prospect of steady flow of commerce and trade within and outside of the British Isles.
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This essay investigates Daniel Defoe’s domestic travelogue, A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-26), with a focus on his deployment of the past and the present. As is well established, A Tour is based on Defoe’s firsthand experience with the southern parts of England and Scotland and his incorporation of other existing sources such as William Camden’s Britannia. I situate my own reading of A Tour alongside previous studies, focusing particularly on the problematic overlap between what Defoe claims to be his original accounts accumulated over the course of many years (and even a decade) and late seventeenth-century topographical literature such as regional surveys and travel narratives. The problematics I explore hinge on the assumption that A Tour is a semi-fictional narrative, one that is crafted to endorse a particular version of modern nationhood Defoe envisions based on the perpetual motion of British commerce and trade. In this context, Defoe’s preoccupation with “decay” and “ruins” provides a telling contrast to the prospect of steady flow of commerce and trade within and outside of the British Isles.
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