1st Edition
Travelling Servants Mobility and Employment in British Travel Writing 1750- 1850
By Kathryn Walchester
Copyright 2020
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book outlines the contribution made by servants to domestic and Continental travel and travel writing between 1750 and 1850. Aiming to re-position British and European travel during this period as a site of work as well as leisure, Katheryn Walchester provides commentary and analysis of texts by servants not addressed in current scholarship. By reading texts contrapuntally, this book draws... Read more
Introduction
1. Servants in Travelling Fiction
2. The Servant in Travel Writing
3. Servants as Travellers and Travel Writers
4. Away: Servants and the Foreign
5. The Home Tour: Servants on Travels around Britain and Ireland
6. A Travelling Education: Gender, Sexuality, and Learning
Conclusion Afterwards
Biography
Kathryn Walchester teaches in the Department of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University.
