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Sto caricando le informazioni... Travels in England in 1782 (1783)di Karl Philipp Moritz
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The best travel books are sometimes of familiar countries by foreign visitors. This is a consistently interesting and honest 18th century account, which often notes the narrowness and class prejudices of British culture. ( ) "One of the most remarkable collections of evidence of the state of England in 1782 that we possess" By sally tarbox on 13 December 2016 Format: Paperback George III was on the English throne when Carl Philip Moritz, an actor - and later teacher of philosophy - left his native Germany for a visit to England. This is quite a fascinating book, as Moritz relates his adventures in a series of letters to a friend back home. He rhapsodizes on the beauties of the countryside, but talks too of things that strike him as odd or interesting. From trips to the theatre and the House of Commons, evenings at Vauxhall and Ranelagh pleasure gardens, he moves on to take a walking/ coach tour to Oxford and thence to the Derbyshire Peak district. He notes repeatedly that traveling on foot is deemed peculiar, dangerous and 'low' - he is often turned away from inns as an undesirable because of it. And yet he has many positive interactions too with the assorted people he encounters en route. Highly readable, he brings to life a vanished world: "there opened out towards me the paradisal district towards Slough." Most enjoyable.
...Moritz´ Naturbegeisterung läuft auf die zu Recht berühmt gewordene Schilderung seines Besuchs der Höhle von Castelton in Derbyshire zu, zugleich nördlichster Punkt seiner Wanderung. Auf dem Weg dahin macht er zahlreiche Bekanntschaften, nicht nur mit Straßendieben, wie er vermutet, sondern auch mit Handwerkern, deren Bildungsniveau er bewundert, und mit einem Prediger, der ihn in Oxford in einen Kreis zechender Pastoren führt, die nächtliche Bibelexegese betreiben. Vor allem aber erfährt der Leser etwas über die in Anspruch genommenen Landgasthöfe mit ihrem unfreundlichen Personal und über die Reisemodalitäten des 18. Jahrhunderts überhaupt - Moritz informiert eingehend über jeden ausgegebenen Shilling. Diese Differenz zu unseren heutigen Reisegewohnheiten begründet sicherlich zu großen Teilen den Reiz, den Moritz´ Erzählung ausmacht.
In 1782 an enthusiastic young German landed in England. Through the fresh eyes of a foreigner we get a wonderful insight into what has or hasn't changed within the last two hundred years. In a series of letters home he describes his amazement at the number of English people who wore spectacles, the amount they drank, the dreadful food they ate, the expense of a simple salad, the drunkenness of the dons, the riotous behaviour in Parliament, and the high level of education among ordinary people. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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