Taking Travel Home: The Souvenir Culture Of British Women Tourists, 1750-1830

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 travels to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship. It argues for the souvenir as a significant site of contestation over the legitimacy of the male and female experience of travel. -- .

• | By (Author): Emma Gleadhill
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 26, 2022
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 312 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 1526155273
• | ISBN-13: 9781526155276