In the nineteenth century, there were two types of travel writing: one, the impressionistic and subjective description of a foreign country that revealed the personal assumptions and values of the writer and, two, the more practical handbooks published by Murray and Baedeker.
Two Visitsto Denmark(1911) belongs in the first category, with Gosse transforming his 1872 and 1874 travel diaries into a retrospective account of his experiences as a “youthful investigator” of Danish culture, religion, literature, and politics (20). The book built on Gosse’s reputation as a commentator on Scandinavian affairs, established by journal articles that he republished as
Studies in the Literature of Northern Europe(1879), and later revised as
Northern Studies(1890).
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Citation: Rees, Kathy. "Two Visits to Denmark: 1872, 1874". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 March 2022 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=27915, accessed 23 November 2024.]
