ABSTRACT
This chapter pursues two related questions in its exploration of continuity and change in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German travel writing on England. It has sought firstly to identify some of the most important narrative devices in non-fictional travel writing which were deployed to engage the reader's sympathy and, secondly, it has asked how they relate to other aesthetic currents in Germany at this time. In underscoring the importance of travel writing to the salient intellectual enterprises of the period, it has therefore also explored how those who wrote and read travel accounts responded to the sentimental interests of the age. Travel writing by no means abandoned its traditional concerns social, historical, geographical, and economic interests. The malleability of the travelogue as a genre gave writers a surprising freedom in two main areas: creative expression and criticism of a social and political nature.
