Alison E . Martin : Moving Scenes: The Aesthetics of German Travel Writing on England 1783–1830 (Studies in Comparative Literature, 13). London: Legenda – Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2008. Pp. 187. Cloth £ 45.00.

• Angus Nicholls

Travel writing has often had a dubious status, situated between the disparate genres of factual geography and subjective memoir, or more generally between non-fiction and fiction. In Moving Scenes, Alison E. Martin makes a relatively persuasive case to the effect that late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German travel writing was not the “poor cousin” to literary fiction, but rather an experimental genre which “occupied a position at the intersection of an impressive range of aesthetic discourses of the time” (p. 159).

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