Bringing Travel Home to England: Tourism, Gender, and Imaginative Literature in the Eighteenth Century

by Susan Lamb

We hold tourism in common as we might a currency or a language. Yet rarely have we thought seriously about how it has shaped our lives, our sense of sexual, religious, political, and social alternatives, or our literatures. This book is the first to identify and examine the relations among literature, tourism, and the wider culture in the long eighteenth century. Gendering emerges as a key mechanism here both for those who brought travel home and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611492750
• ISBN13: 9781611492750
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 433 Pages