Navigating necessity

The mid-nineteenth century travel writer, lecturer and poet Bayard Taylor self-consciously capitalised on the expanding commercial popularity of the travel narrative to build a substantial literary reputation and upward social mobility. Taylor’s success as a writer resulted from subtly blending sentimental and romantic elements, and punctuating these with popular sensational motifs. However, these strategies, which proved so effective commercially, deeply troubled Taylor as they ran directly counter to his most cherished romantic ideals and literary ambitions. Taylor sought to shield himself from the anxiety that this dilemma produced by advancing ideas in his travel writing and lectures that challenged the core assumptions of middle-class readers. Nevertheless, Taylor came to see himself and his dilemma reflected in the figure of Goethe’s Faust: worldly success, it seemed, came at no lower cost than that of one’s very soul

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