National Identities and Travel in Victorian Britain

Download or read book National Identities and Travel in Victorian Britain written by M. Morgan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-01-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 It draws on published and unpublished travel journals by middle-class men and women from England, Scotland, and Wales who toured the Continent and/or Britain.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.