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The Shelleys’ Tried Bodies in their Travel Literature

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This chapter shows that behind the sublime and romantic dimension of the Shelleys' travels, which is what the reader usually remembers, there is a more down-to-earth reality that affects their bodies, from exhaustion partly caused by the 'vegetable diet', through sprained ankles to death. At the same time, physical weakness may be used as a narrative tool to turn the travel experience into a more exciting adventure, while even death is turned into myth, as in the account of Percy Bysshe's cremation by Edward John Trelawny.

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halshs-03286290 , version 1 (14-07-2021)

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Fabien Desset. The Shelleys’ Tried Bodies in their Travel Literature. Jaine CHEMMACHERY; Bhawana JAIN. Mobility and Corporeality in Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Literature. Bodies in Motion, Lexington Books, pp.79-94, 2021, 978-1-7936-2567-0. ⟨halshs-03286290⟩
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