In this welcome addition to Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series, author Susan Harlan packs just enough in her sturdy devices to finish this trip on time and under budget . What is luggage? What is baggage? Are they interchangeable terms, or does the former exist only because it started as the latter? Is a backpack luggage? Questions are asked and answered. PopMatters
Introduction: Travel and Its Objects1. Luggage and Secrets2. The Language of Luggage3. Packing4. My Luggage5. Lost Luggage: Alabama's Unclaimed Baggage CenterAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsNotesIndex
Susan Harlan is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University, USA. She is the author of Memories of War in Early Modern England (2016) and has written for, among others, Literary Hub, The Guardian US, The Toast, Roads & Kingdoms, The Awl, The Bitter Southerner, The Morning News, Curbed, The Common, Nowhere, Public Books, Jezebel, and Atlas Obscura.
