Women, travel and identity : journeys by rail and sea, 1870-1940 /
The years between 1870 and 1940 are often considered a 'golden age' of travel: as larger and evermore sumptuous ships and trains were built, including the Orient Express, Blue Train, Lusitania and Normandie, journeying abroad became, and remains today, synonymous with chic, splendour and l...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Half-title; Series page; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The big luggage went a fortnight ago: making the journey abroad; 2 Fashion plate heroines: imagining the female journeyer; 3 No nice girl swears: advice, etiquette and expectation; 4 Ordering the berth: the spaces of journeying; 5 Busy practising games: scrutiny and sociability; 6 Full of wickedness: romantic opportunity and sexual hazard?; 7 Where her story begins: fashioning a journeyer identity; Conclusion | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Appendix: Women journeyersBibliography; Index | |
| 520 | |a The years between 1870 and 1940 are often considered a 'golden age' of travel: as larger and evermore sumptuous ships and trains were built, including the Orient Express, Blue Train, Lusitania and Normandie, journeying abroad became, and remains today, synonymous with chic, splendour and luxury. Utilising women's diaries and letters, art, advertising, fiction and etiquette guides, this book considers the journey's impact upon understandings of female identity, definitions of femininity, modernity, glamour, class, travel, tourism, leisure and sexual opportunity and threat during this period. It. | ||
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