Literature and Domestic Travel in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780521448376 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 260 str.

Andrew McRae

Opis

An interdisciplinary investigation of the modes and meanings of domestic travel and of early modern attitudes to mobility.

Recenzje

'… we must welcome a book that contains such valuable critiques of recent scholarship in economic, tourism, and landscape history, and shows such multidisciplinary engagement with varied sources.' Comparative Studies in Society and History

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Routes: 1. Rivers; 2. Roads; 3. Inns and alehouses; Part II. Travellers: 4. The progress: royal travellers and common authors; 5. Tourism: Celia Fiennes and her context; 6. Traffic: John Taylor and his context; Epilogue: Defoe's Tour; Index.