Bringing travel home to England
Subtitle: tourism, gender, and imaginative literature in the eighteenth century
By: Susan Lamb.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9780874139211
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-415) and index.
Table of contents: title: Tourism and its human contexts; title: Gender and tourism; title: Making something of the human landscape; title: Writers bring it home; title: What Sterne's Maria did : or, how to publish what you do with women; title: Postscript to Sterne : the tragedy of Mary Robinson, maid of Buttermere; title: Protected witnesses : tourists and female communities; title: "Be such a man as I" : Mademoiselle's points of crossing; title: Taking your country to wife : tourism and the novels of Samuel Richardson.