travel-writing

Updated: August 9, 2026

That there is something of manner and trick about this is not to be denied; but it must be allowed that the trick and manner have been followed, apparently with success, in travel-writing for about half a century, while it cannot be fairly said that Kinglake himself had any exact models, though he may have owed something to Beckford and a little to Sterne.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)