Sightseeing vs. SeeingIn the Semantic Spotlight: The Development of the Verb 'To Gipsy'; Virtual Forms of Travel; Travelling "On the Inside"; River Journeys and Their Representations: Dickens and Banvard; References; Chapter 4 The Dangers of Idle...
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Sightseeing vs. SeeingIn the Semantic Spotlight: The Development of the Verb 'To Gipsy'; Virtual Forms of Travel; Travelling "On the Inside"; River Journeys and Their Representations: Dickens and Banvard; References; Chapter 4 The Dangers of Idle Time; Why Guidebooks Are Like Goggles; The Problem of Idle Time; The Victorian Attitude Towards Travel: Leisure or Work?; References; Chapter 5 Genre and Gender; Travel Writing as a Late-Romantic Genre; The Connection Between Gender, Travel and Idleness; Idleness as a Gendered Concept; Precarious Idleness; References; Part II Case Studies Chapter 6 The Victorian Idler's Late-Romantic MentalityThree Dimensions of Re-subjectification: Readiness, Thereness and Dynamic Perception; Categories of Rendering the Experience of Idleness in Travelogues; References; Chapter 7 Idleness and Idling in Anna Mary Howitt's An Art-Student in Munich (1853); Written Pictures and Exaggerations; The Orchestration of Colour and the Receptive Art-Student Gaze; Experiencing Spaces of Idleness; Creating a Personal Cityscape; References; Chapter 8 W. H. Hudson, His Thinking Machine and Idle Days in Patagonia (1893) The Composition Context of Idle Days in PatagoniaEnforced Idleness Becomes Desired Idleness-Patagonia as Liminal Space; Re-subjectification Through Watchfulness; Textual "Speed Bumps," or Portable Idleness; References; Chapter 9 Jerome K. Jerome's Humoristic Idleness in Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog!) (1889): Lightness and Longing; Popularising 'Thamesland' as a Space for Careless Idling; Work, Progress and (Sentimental) Idleness in Three Men in a Boat; Physicality and (Slow) Travel; Too Much of an Idler to Be Original? Jerome and Dickens Jr.'s Dictionary of the Thames
