Literature and Domestic Travel in Early Modern England

by Andrew McRae

In the early modern period, the population of England travelled more than is often now thought, by road and by water: from members of the gentry travelling for pleasure, through the activities of those involved in internal trade, to labourers migrating out of necessity. Yet the commonly held view that people should know their places, geographically as well as socially, made domestic travel highly controversial. Andrew McRae examines the meanings of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521448379
• ISBN13: 9780521448376
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"