National Identities and Travel in Victorian Britain

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 It draws on published and unpublished travel journals by middle-class men and women from England, Scotland, and Wales. 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.

Author: M. Morgan
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/11/2001
Pages: 271
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.78h x 5.64w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780333719992

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2001 pg. 582

About the Author
MARJORIE MORGAN is an Associate Professor of History at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She is the author of Manners, Morals and Class in England, 1774-1858.