Ben Jonson's Walk to Scotland
Subtitle: An Annotated Edition of the 'Foot Voyage'
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781107003330
Subjects: Literature and society; Jonson, ben, 1573-1637; Human geography, great britain; Great britain, foreign relations; Scotland, foreign relations
Description: "At the heart of this book is a previously unpublished account of Ben Jonson's celebrated walk from London to Edinburgh in the summer of 1618. This unique firsthand narrative provides us with an insight into where Jonson went, whom he met, and what he did on the way. James Loxley, Anna Groundwater and Julie Sanders present a clear, readable and fully annotated edition of the text. An introduction and a series of contextual essays shed further light on topics including the evidence of provenance and authorship, Jonson's contacts throughout Britain, his celebrity status, and the relationships between his 'foot voyage' and other famous journeys of the time. The essays also illuminate wider issues such as early modern travel and political and cultural relations between England and Scotland. It is an invaluable volume for scholars and upper-level students of Ben Jonson studies, early modern literature, seventeenth-century social history, and cultural geography"--

"At the heart of this book is a previously unpublished account of Ben Jonson's celebrated walk from London to Edinburgh in the summer of 1618. This unique first-hand narrative provides us with an insight into where Jonson went, whom he met, and what he did on the way"--