Taking Travel Home - The Souvenir Culture of British Women Tourists, 17501830

This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collected during their European travels to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship, and to stake their claims to agency and authority as travelling subjects.

About the author

Emma Gleadhill is a Sydney-based historian and artist

Summary

This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collected during their European travels to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship, and to stake their claims to agency and authority as travelling subjects. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Emma Gleadhill
• Assisted by: Julie Hardwick (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781526155276
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5527-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Gender in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799