The Servant as Narrative Vehicle in Nineteenth-Century Travel Texts about Norway and Iceland

• Published in: Studies in Travel Writing
• Main Author: Walchester, KA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis (Routledge) 2017
• Subjects: PN Literature (General); Clifford; Norway; Traveller; Iceland
• Online Access: http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/6421/; https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/6421/1/STW_Walchester.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2017.1322168

By focusing on the representation of the travelling servant, on whom as Clifford (1997) acknowledges there is a paucity of evidence, this essay presents a contrapuntal reading of two nineteenth-century British travelogues, Letters from High Latitudes by Lord Dufferin (1857) and A Summer and Winter i...