Rewriting stereotypes on Spain: Unveiling the counter-picturesque in Katharine Lee Bates

This article analyzes the use of the concept of the picturesque in Katharine Lee Bates’s travelogue Spanish Highways and Byways (1900). By comparing Bates’s text to previous travel narratives, the essay explores how stereotypes written about Spain are challenged and reformulated within the framework...

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Autor: Egea Fernández-Montesinos, Alberto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO)
Repositorio:RIO. Repositorio Institucional Olavide
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:rio.upo.es:10433/22319
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22319
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Katharine Lee Bates
Travel literature
Spain
Picturesque
Counter-picturesque image
Stereotypes
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Sumario:This article analyzes the use of the concept of the picturesque in Katharine Lee Bates’s travelogue Spanish Highways and Byways (1900). By comparing Bates’s text to previous travel narratives, the essay explores how stereotypes written about Spain are challenged and reformulated within the framework of imperial discourse. Bates’s political and ideological agenda attempts to construct an alternative discourse through the use of what I have called the counter-picturesque. The essay contributes to the study of travelogues written by American women and to the field of imagology as related to Spain