Thomas Betteridge, ed.: Borders and Travellers in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)

Biography, September, 2008 by Mancall, Peter C.

Thomas Betteridge, ed. Borders and Travellers in Early Modern Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. vii 196 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-5351-6, $99.95. Travelers went seemingly everywhere in the early modern world, and modern literary scholars have pursued them, sometimes to distant climes. In recent years the vogue for travelers' texts has appeared everywhere--in a journal (Studies in Travel Writing), in anthologies, in popular books, and in serious works of scholarship. Thomas Betteridge of Oxford Brookes University has assembled a collection of essays, which includes some of the most prominent scholars working in the field today, notably Andrew Hadfield, Claire Jowitt, and Neil Whitehead. Though it is unclear what has brought these essays Together--there is no mention of a...

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