Tourists and Travellers

Comprehensively and lucidly linking gender with the geography, literary conventions, and historical meanings of English tourism in Scotland between 1770 and 1830, Tourists and Travellers is at the cutting edge of scholarship on women's travel writing.Benjamin Colbert, University of Wolverhampton Combining scrupulous close readings, extensive archival researches and a nuanced understanding of the latest theoretical debates in this area, this volume makes a very useful and highly stimulating contribution both to travel writing studies and to women's studies.Carl Thompson, Nottingham Trent UniversityThe book's ability to address four objectives, which are also framed as cross-cutting themes and revisited throughout the book, is very effective. Hagglund achieves the multiple objectives she sets out for herself, and provides a delightful multi-layered examination of English women's travels to Scotland through the writing each of these five women produced.Suzanne de la Barre, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Umeadegree University, Umeadegree, Sweden in Annals of Tourism Research 38 (2011) 331-346The book unites tourism and women's studies and draws on history, geography and English literature to produce some perceptive and original insights into travel writing and its underlying dynamics. Hagglund successfully demonstrates how the analysis of travel writing illuminates the character and situation of the writer, the society and the era in which they lived and the conditions in the locations travelled through. There is evidence of extensive research and a depth of knowledge which allows her to comment with authority on the subject. The book complements existing literature and is a useful contribution to the ongoing debates about the role of women writers and the impact of gender on traveldiscourses. It also illustrates tourism development processes and the multiple factors which act as determinants. Scholars with a particular interest in the women cited and Scottish tourism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries will find it an especially welcome source of stimulating ideas, information and guidance about further reading.Joan C. Henderson, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in Tourism Recreation Research Vol. 36, No. 1, 2011