Mora Sena, María José2025-02-132025-02-132024Llamas Granado, R. (2024). Travel Writing and Cultural Images: A Critical Edition of Jean Gailhard's The Character of Spain (1671). (Trabajo Fin de Máster Inédito). Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla.https://hdl.handle.net/11441/168608This master thesis presents a critical edition of Jean Gailhard’s The Character of Spain (1671) and a discussion on the cultural images presented by the author. To place the text in context, the concepts of travel writing, the Grand Tour, imagology and the Black Legend have been examined, as has the figure of the author, Jean Gailhard, a French Huguenot exiled in England in the second part of the 17th century. The critical edition and the analysis of the text show an image of Spain that attacks the lifestyle of Spaniards, making a discourse based on stereotypes that was justified using anecdotes and Spanish proverbs he explains in English. The author concludes that even though there are some places worth visiting in Spain, the inhospitality among other qualities among Spaniards and of Spanish climate make it impossible to enjoy a pleasant journey. Consequently, this text serves as a discouragement to those Englishmen desiring to travel to Spain because of the vogue for Spanish literature. The discussion approaches the text from a critical scope and tries to show the reader the reasons the author has for criticising Spain.application/pdf60 p.spaAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ImagologySpaintravel writingeducationGrand TourJean Gailhardinfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess