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 European travels to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship, and to stake their claims to agenc...

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1. Verfasser: Gleadhill, Emma (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
Schriftenreihe:Gender in history.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 290 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781526155283
1526155281
9781526155269
1526155265
9781526169938
1526169932

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