Taking travel home
The souvenir culture of British women tourists, 1750-1830
By Emma Gleadhill
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Book Information
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-5527-6
- Pages: 312
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Price: £80.00
- Published Date: April 2022
- BIC Category: Humanities / British & Irish history, Humanities / Social & cultural history, Humanities / Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Society & social sciences / Gender studies: women, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Social & cultural history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Gender studies: women & girls, History, Early Modern History, Modern History
- Series: Gender in History
Description
Taking travel home provides a cultural history of the travel souvenir. It situates the souvenir at the crossroads of competing ideas of what travel stood for which were fought out amongst a rapidly growing constituency of British tourists between 1750 and 1830.
Drawing from the theory of the souvenir as a nostalgic narrative instrument, the book uncovers how elite women tourists developed a souvenir culture around the texts and objects they brought home to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship.
Ultimately, it argues that souvenirs are representative of female agency during this period. For elite women, revelling in the independence and identity formation of travel, but hampered by polite models of femininity and reliant on their menfolk, the creation of souvenirs provided a way to prove their claims to the authority of the travelling subject.
Contents
Introduction: remembering travel
PART I: GENDERING CONNOISSEURSHIP
1 The Grand Tour: a masculine legacy of taste
2 Shopping for souvenirs
3 Creating their own cultural capital: Lady Anna Miller and Hester Lynch Piozzi
PART II: GENDERING SCIENCE
4 Every fair Columbus
5 Dorothy Richardson's extensive knowledge
6 Lady Elizabeth Holland, the social orchestrator of science
PART III: GENDERING FRIENDSHIP
7 From diplomatic gift to trifle from Tunbridge Wells
8 A snuff-box and other Napoleonic keepsakes
9 Princess Ekaterina Dashkova's gifts to Martha Wilmot
Conclusion: remembering the souvenir
Index
Author
Emma Gleadhill is a Sydney-based historian and artist
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