This article focuses on travel accounts about Cornwall from “the long nineteenth century,” including those by Wilkie Collins and W.H. Hudson. The article traces a shift from a general hostility to “deformed” Cornish topography to an almost universal celebration of its “rugged beauty,” coupled with a consistent tendency to exoticize local culture, and considers the changing impetus of this othering—from an integrationist ideology at the outset, to a desire to maintain an exotic “elsewhere” as counterpoint to the metropolis later on. The second part of the article takes a self-reflexive approach, drawing on my own background as a self-identifying Cornish person to consider how such outsider representations might interact with local auto-exoticizing discourses. Drawing on Wendy Bracewell’s work on “travelee polemics” and the “travelee reader,” the article argues that receiving exoticizing travel texts may have a validating quality in a community that self-identifies as “different” from a national mainstream.

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“丑恶的国度”：旅行作家眼中的康沃尔，作为“旅行者读者”接收旅行者的文本

本文重点介绍“漫长的 19 世纪”中康沃尔郡的旅行记述，包括威尔基·柯林斯 (Wilkie Collins) 和 WH 哈德森 (WH Hudson) 的记述。这篇文章追溯了从普遍敌意到“畸形”康沃尔地形的转变，再到对其“崎岖之美”的几乎普遍庆祝，加上对当地文化异国情调的一贯趋势，并考虑了这种异类的不断变化的推动力——来自整合主义意识形态一开始，是为了保持异国情调的“别处”，作为以后大都市的对立面。文章的第二部分采用自我反思的方法，利用我自己作为一个自我认同的康沃尔人的背景来考虑这种局外人的表现如何与当地的自我异国化话语相互作用。借鉴温迪·布雷斯韦尔 (Wendy Bracewell) 关于“旅行者辩论”和“旅行者读者”的著作，