Ben Jonson's walk to Scotland : an annotated edition of the 'foot voyage'
2017
Book
Total copies: 1
This is the first publication of a recently discovered account of Ben Jonson's walk to Scotland in 1618. Supported by contextual essays, this unique firsthand narrative provides researchers and graduate students with an invaluable insight into Jonson's life and work, and the social and cultural history of early modern Britain. At the heart of this book is a previously unpublished account of Ben Jonson's celebrated walk from London to Edinburgh in the summer of 1618.
Main title:
Ben Jonson's walk to Scotland : an annotated edition of the 'foot voyage' / edited by James Loxley, Anna Groundwater, Julie Sanders.
Imprint:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Collation:
255 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781108438780 (pbk)1108438784 (pbk)
Dewey class:
822.3 LOX822.3
LC class:
PR2638
Language:
English
Subject:
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 -- Travel -- EnglandJonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 -- Travel -- ScotlandLiterature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th centuryCultural geography -- Great BritainEngland -- Foreign relations -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800Scotland -- Foreign relations -- England -- Early works to 1800LiteratureLiterature
BRN:
316445