ISBN:
0719087155
,
9780719087158
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 244 S.
,
Ill.
,
23 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Gender in history
DDC:
305.40941
Keywords:
Travelers' writings, English History 19th century
;
Women travelers History 19th century
;
Women History 19th century
;
Frau
;
Reise
;
Soziale Identität
;
Geschichte 1870-1940
Description / Table of Contents:
The big luggage went a fortnight ago: making the journey abroadFashion plate heroines: imagining the female journeyer -- No nice girl swears: advice, etiquette and expectation -- Ordering the berth: the spaces of journeying -- Busy practising the games: scrutiny and sociability -- Full of wickedness: romantic opportunity and sexual hazard? -- Where her story begins: fashioning a journeyer identity.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (S. 222 - 237) and index
,
Distr.: in the US exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
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