National Identities and Travel in Victorian Britain
Description
This book explores components of national identity in Victorian Britain by analyzing travel literature. It draws on published and unpublished travel journals by middle-class men and women from England, Scotland, and Wales who toured the Continent and/or Britain. The main aim is to illustrate both the contexts that inspired the various collective identities of Britishness, Englishness, Scotsness, and Welshness, as well as the qualities Victorian men and women had in mind when they used such terms to identify and imagine themselves collectively.
Keywords
Social ScienceSociologyHistoryEuropeGreat BritainSocial HistoryModernLiterary CriticismAnthropologyCultural & Social
2001Book
Author(s)Marjorie Morgan
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780333719992
LanguageEnglish
