The Flight of Icarus

The Flight of Icarus
Author:
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 510
Release: 1998-08
Genre: Artisans
ISBN: 0804764123

Exploring autobiographical texts written by European urban craftsmen from the 15th to the 18th centuries, this book studies memoirs, diaries, family chronicles, travel narratives, and other forms of personal writings from Spain, France, Italy, Germany, and England. In the process, it reveals the significance of written self-expression in early modern popular culture.

Travelling Servants

Travelling Servants
Author: Kathryn Walchester
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2019-07-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000638995

This book outlines the contribution made by servants to domestic and Continental travel and travel writing between 1750 and 1850. Aiming to re-position British and European travel during this period as a site of work as well as leisure, Katheryn Walchester provides commentary and analysis of texts by servants not addressed in current scholarship. By reading texts contrapuntally, this book draws attention to repeated tropes and common patterns in the ways in which servants are featured in travelogues; and in so doing, offers an account of alternative modes of experiencing and writing about the Home Tour and the Grand Tour.