The Inner Lives of Early Modern Travel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8957896 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark R F Williams (0000-0002-3990-0669, Cardiff University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 349-373 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x18000237 |
| OpenAlex | W2810433858 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
This article assesses the role of memory, interiority, and intergenerational relations in the framing of early modern experiences and narratives of travel. It adopts as its focus three generations of the Clerk family of Penicuik, Scotland, whose travels through Europe from the mid-seventeenth century onward proved formative in the creation of varied ‘cosmopolitan’ stances within the family. While such widely studied practices as the ‘Grand Tour’ have drawn on discourses of encounter and cultural engagement within the broader narratives of the ‘long’ eighteenth century, this article reveals a family made deeply anxious by the consequences of travel, both during and after the act. Using diaries, manuscript correspondence, memoirs, and material objects, this article reveals the many ways in which travel was fashioned before, during, and long after it was undertaken. By shifting focus away from the act of travel itself and towards its subsequent afterlives, it explores the ways in which these individuals internalized what they experienced in the course of travel, how they reconciled it with the familiar, quotidian world to which they returned, and how the ‘cosmopolitan’ worldviews they brought home were made to inform the generations that followed
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Formative assessment · Framing (construction · Literature · Memoir · Narrative · Sociology · Travel writing · Gender Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Scottish History and National Identity
Britons
Cities and the Grand Tour
Conversions
The Grand Tour. Language, National Identity and Masculinity
The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland
A Taste for Newfangledness
Cette fusion annuelle
Writing the travelling self
Ego-Documents
The Reformation of the Generations
The Italian London of John North
Manners” Make the Man
The Web of Empire
Educational Travel in Protestant Families From Post-Restoration Ireland
British Perceptions of Florence in the Long Eighteenth Century
Puritan Self-fashioning
Ungratefull Tuscans
The Making of Englishmen
Unpacking cosmopolitanism for the social sciences
Jesus Wept' But Did the Englishman? Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern England
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |