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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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Autor principal: Gleadhill, Emma (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Plates and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Map of the central women travellers' residences in England, Wales and Ireland -- Introduction: remembering travel -- Part I: Gendering connoisseurship -- The Grand Tour: a masculine legacy of taste -- Shopping for souvenirs -- Creating their own cultural capital: Lady Anna Miller and Hester Lynch Piozzi -- Part II: Gendering science -- Every fair Columbus -- Dorothy Richardson's extensive knowledge -- Lady Elizabeth Holland, the social orchestrator of science -- Part III: Gendering friendship 
505 0 |a From diplomatic gift to trifle from Tunbridge Wells -- A snuff-box and other Napoleonic keepsakes -- Princess Ekaterina Dashkova's gifts to Martha Wilmot -- Conclusion: remembering the souvenir -- Bibliography -- Index 
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