Travel Narratives in Portugal in the Nineteenth Century

Maria de Fátima Outeirinho analyzes the cultural phenomenon of travel narratives published in the feuilleton section of Portuguese newspapers, prominently from the 1860s onwards. Based on extensive original archival research of the newspapers of the time, this essay examines the genre of these texts, their inner codification, the use of self-reflexive commentary, the dialogic with their readership, and the cultural para-discourse surrounding these literary narratives.