Dickens and travel : the start of modern travel writing / Lucinda Hawksley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawksley, Lucinda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Travel.

Dickens, Charles.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Novelists, English--19th century--Travel.

Novelists, English.

Novelists, English--Travel.

Travel.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

x, 270 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books, Ltd., 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Exhausted Horses and Drunken Post-boys

To Yorkshire with Phiz

Our English Watering Places

`Perfectly Terrible An Awful Place': Travels Around Scotland

The Search for Drowned Corpses in Wales

`A Very Picturesque and Various Country': Reading Tours in Ireland

Killed with Kindness: A Grand Tour to North America

New York City: Dazzling Dresses and Wretched Poverty

Philadelphia: Not Quite the Land of the Free

To Washington and Beyond: Magnificent Intentions

The Journey to Italy

A New Life in Genoa

Pictures from Italy

The Ghosts of Rome

The Continuing Influence of Italy

`My Hat Shall Ever Be Ready to Be Thrown Up For Switzerland'

Dickens the Francophile

Paris - `Bright Wicked and Wanton'

Boulogne: The Best Wine and Delicious Views

Condette: La Mai son Dickens

A Study in Idleness

The Uncommercial Traveller

Ruminating on the Railways

Returning to America

`Revolving Restlessly, Australia in My Head'

Travelling with Dickens.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-263) and index.

ISBN:

9781526735638

1526735636

OCLC:

1293650151