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Author:

Lamb, Susan, 1966-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Delaware Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

433 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
Travel in literature
Gender identity in literature
Literature and society--England--History--18th century.
England--Social life and customs--18th century
Travelers--England--History--18th century.
Richardson, Samuel,--1689-1761--Criticism and interpretation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-415) and index.

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.

ISBN:

087413921X (alk. paper)
9780874139211 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)166255053

LCCN:

2007032923

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)