Anna P H Geurts
Biographic Data
| ID | 249012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna P H Geurts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna P H |
| FAMILY NAME | Geurts |
| SIGNATURE | GEURTS A P H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2853-7622 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Imagination Over Innovation: The Experienced Freedom of Movement of Nineteenth-Century European Travelers
This article challenges conventional cultural histories of mobility by rethinking the impact of technology in nineteenth-century Europe. Drawing on nearly one hundred European cross-border travel accounts—especially by travelers from the northern Netherlands—it argues that mobility depended less on technological innovation than on what travelers imagined technology could do. Rather than being driven by inventions, satisfactory travel hinged on th…
Clothing For/Against Walking
In this chapter, Geurts examines happy and less happy collaborations between people and (other) materials/objects in the act of walking. What happens when walking breaks down? This is a phenomenological question, but one that deserves historically specific answers. This chapter suggests two tools: 1) to distinguish between "helpful" materials/objects and "unhelpful" matter/things. When, for walkers, materials turn into matter, this has consequenc…
Tragic and ironic transformations of a former working-class girl’s writings: Presenting Neel Doff’s Keetje trilogy (1911-1921) in book, film, and song in the 1970s
This article deepens our knowledge of what happens when literature by (formerly) working-class, female authors is translated or adapted for different media. Starting from the existing insights that those who adapt the work of female authors often betray biographical and strong-editing impulses, it suggests that these impulses both compound each other and are compounded by the intersecting category of class. Working-class girls are not easily acce…
Flânerie as a Mode of Pleasure: Lessons from a Working-Class Flâneuse
n Contains fulltext :\n 286476.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Gender, Curiosity, and the Grand Tour: Late-Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing
Discussions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European travel have long tended to over-apply the model of the grand tour. It is increasingly recognized now that many British journeys to the Continent knew different motivations and itineraries, and were made from different subject positions than that of the young male aristocrat. An alternative model proposed for female travelers has its own limitations, however. It presents women as more open…
Trains, bodies, landscapes. Experiencing distance in the long nineteenth century
The arrival of the railways has led scholars of nineteenth-century Europe to posit the thesis of a shrinking world, in which distances were annihilated and travel became a decorporealised and delocalised experience. This article uses travellers’ own writings to empirically complicate this thesis by looking at which journeys were characterised as near or far, and why. Building on Massey’s and Wenzlhuemer’s work on the multiplicity of space and spa…
Flânerie as a Mode of Pleasure: Lessons from a Working-Class Flâneuse
n Contains fulltext :\n 286476.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Trains, bodies, landscapes. Experiencing distance in the long nineteenth century
The arrival of the railways has led scholars of nineteenth-century Europe to posit the thesis of a shrinking world, in which distances were annihilated and travel became a decorporealised and delocalised experience. This article uses travellers’ own writings to empirically complicate this thesis by looking at which journeys were characterised as near or far, and why. Building on Massey’s and Wenzlhuemer’s work on the multiplicity of space and spa…
Trains, bodies, landscapes. Experiencing distance in the long nineteenth century
The arrival of the railways has led scholars of nineteenth-century Europe to posit the thesis of a shrinking world, in which distances were annihilated and travel became a decorporealised and delocalised experience. This article uses travellers’ own writings to empirically complicate this thesis by looking at which journeys were characterised as near or far, and why. Building on Massey’s and Wenzlhuemer’s work on the multiplicity of space and spa…
Gender, Curiosity, and the Grand Tour: Late-Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing
Discussions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European travel have long tended to over-apply the model of the grand tour. It is increasingly recognized now that many British journeys to the Continent knew different motivations and itineraries, and were made from different subject positions than that of the young male aristocrat. An alternative model proposed for female travelers has its own limitations, however. It presents women as more open…
Flânerie as a Mode of Pleasure: Lessons from a Working-Class Flâneuse
n Contains fulltext :\n 286476.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Clothing For/Against Walking
In this chapter, Geurts examines happy and less happy collaborations between people and (other) materials/objects in the act of walking. What happens when walking breaks down? This is a phenomenological question, but one that deserves historically specific answers. This chapter suggests two tools: 1) to distinguish between "helpful" materials/objects and "unhelpful" matter/things. When, for walkers, materials turn into matter, this has consequenc…
Tragic and ironic transformations of a former working-class girl’s writings: Presenting Neel Doff’s Keetje trilogy (1911-1921) in book, film, and song in the 1970s
This article deepens our knowledge of what happens when literature by (formerly) working-class, female authors is translated or adapted for different media. Starting from the existing insights that those who adapt the work of female authors often betray biographical and strong-editing impulses, it suggests that these impulses both compound each other and are compounded by the intersecting category of class. Working-class girls are not easily acce…
Imagination Over Innovation: The Experienced Freedom of Movement of Nineteenth-Century European Travelers
This article challenges conventional cultural histories of mobility by rethinking the impact of technology in nineteenth-century Europe. Drawing on nearly one hundred European cross-border travel accounts—especially by travelers from the northern Netherlands—it argues that mobility depended less on technological innovation than on what travelers imagined technology could do. Rather than being driven by inventions, satisfactory travel hinged on th…
Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Travel Writing and Literature (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)