Defoe's Tour and early modern Britain : panorama of the nation /

Authoritative yet accessible, this is the first-ever comprehensive account of a true landmark in eighteenth-century travel writing. Daniel Defoe's Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain is constantly cited even now by students in practically every branch of history, and there are few...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rogers, Pat (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Subjects:	Defoe, Daniel, > 1661?-1731. > Tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain. Defoe, Daniel, > 1661?-1731 > Criticism and interpretation. Defoe, Daniel, > 1661?-1731. Tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain (Defoe, Daniel) Great Britain > History > 18th century > Sources. Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle > Sources. Great Britain. 1700-1799 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Sources.

Table of Contents:

Part 1 : Form and Function
Chapter 1 : The Identity of Britain
Chapter 2 : Embedding and Embodying the Nation : Textual Practices in the Tour
Chapter 3 : The Epic Strain
Chapter 4 : The Shape of the Nation
Part 2 : Time
Chapter 5 : The Role of the Tour in the Historiography of Early Modern Britain
Chapter 6 : The Jacobite Rising in the Tour : Preventing the Ruin of Scotland
Chapter 7 : The Impact of the Bubble
Chapter 8 : Local Proverbs and Folk Wisdom
Part 3 : Place
Chapter 9 : The Uses of Topography
Chapter 10 : Road-testing the First Turnpikes : Defoe's Account of English Highways
Chapter 11 : Defoe on Bristol : The Text with an Introduction and Annotation
Chapter 12 : Atlas Maritimus: The Case for Defoe's Authorship.