Taking travel home : The souvenir culture of British women tourists, 1750-1830 /

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Gleadhill, Emma (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Voyage > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Souvenirs (Objets) > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Travel > History > 18th century.
Women tourists > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Souvenirs (Keepsakes) > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Civilisation > 18e siecle.
Great Britain > Civilization > 18th century.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781526155283

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