Bringing travel home to England : tourism, gender, and imaginative literature in the eighteenth century / Susan Lamb.

Author/creator Lamb, Susan, 1966-
Format Book
Publication InfoNewark : University of Delaware Press, ©2009.
Description433 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761--Criticism and interpretation.
English fiction--18th century. --History and criticism.
Travel in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Literature and society--England. --History. --18th century.
Travelers--England. --History. --18th century.
England--Social life and customs. --18th century.

Contents Tourism and its human contexts -- Gender and tourism -- Making something of the human landscape -- Writers bring it home -- What Sterne's Maria did : or, how to publish what you do with women -- Postscript to Sterne : the tragedy of Mary Robinson, maid of Buttermere -- Protected witnesses : tourists and female communities -- "Be such a man as I" : Mademoiselle's points of crossing -- Taking your country to wife : tourism and the novels of Samuel Richardson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 391-415) and index.
LCCN 2007032923
ISBN9780874139211 (alk. paper)
ISBN087413921X (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR 858.T75 L36 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold