Zoë Kinsley is a senior lecturer in English literature at Liverpool Hope University. Her research and teaching interests include home tour travel writing, early modern scribal culture, and eighteenth-century landscape poetry. She has published various articles on these subjects and has recently co-edited the collection Mapping Liminalities: Thresholds in Cultural and Literary Texts (2007).

• Contents: Introduction: women on the home tour; Part 1 Travels and Texts: Considering the Travelogue Form: Pursuing order: the organizational strategies of women's travel texts; 'Coming before the public in the character of ... a tourist': travellers' textual choices. Part 2 Perspectives on the Landscape: Detachment and Destabilization in Home Tour Writing: Framing the landscape; Breaking the frame. Part 3 Travelling Identities: Travel Theory and the Emergence of British Tourism: Home tour spectacles; Encountering alterity; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

’Well grounded, Women Writing the Home Tour contributes to travel and tourism, women’s literary culture, and British national identity.’ The Scriblerian 'Kinsley makes a fine book out of an underwritten subject that is also overwritten elsewhere in criticism. Everyone will learn something from her: it offers fresh materials, intelligent orchestrations and an impressive connection of bigger pictures and fine details.' Women’s Writing '... a substantial contribution to current scholarly understandings of literary culture, aesthetic ideals, and the construction of feminine and British identities in the period.' Notes and Queries

Zoë Kinsley is a senior lecturer in English literature at Liverpool Hope University. Her research and teaching interests include home tour travel writing, early modern scribal culture, and eighteenth-century landscape poetry. She has published various articles on these subjects and has recently co-edited the collection Mapping Liminalities: Thresholds in Cultural and Literary Texts (2007).

• Contents: Introduction: women on the home tour; Part 1 Travels and Texts: Considering the Travelogue Form: Pursuing order: the organizational strategies of women's travel texts; 'Coming before the public in the character of ... a tourist': travellers' textual choices. Part 2 Perspectives on the Landscape: Detachment and Destabilization in Home Tour Writing: Framing the landscape; Breaking the frame. Part 3 Travelling Identities: Travel Theory and the Emergence of British Tourism: Home tour spectacles; Encountering alterity; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

’Well grounded, Women Writing the Home Tour contributes to travel and tourism, women’s literary culture, and British national identity.’ The Scriblerian 'Kinsley makes a fine book out of an underwritten subject that is also overwritten elsewhere in criticism. Everyone will learn something from her: it offers fresh materials, intelligent orchestrations and an impressive connection of bigger pictures and fine details.' Women’s Writing '... a substantial contribution to current scholarly understandings of literary culture, aesthetic ideals, and the construction of feminine and British identities in the period.' Notes and Queries

Zoë Kinsley is a senior lecturer in English literature at Liverpool Hope University. Her research and teaching interests include home tour travel writing, early modern scribal culture, and eighteenth-century landscape poetry. She has published various articles on these subjects and has recently co-edited the collection Mapping Liminalities: Thresholds in Cultural and Literary Texts (2007).

• Contents: Introduction: women on the home tour; Part 1 Travels and Texts: Considering the Travelogue Form: Pursuing order: the organizational strategies of women's travel texts; 'Coming before the public in the character of ... a tourist': travellers' textual choices. Part 2 Perspectives on the Landscape: Detachment and Destabilization in Home Tour Writing: Framing the landscape; Breaking the frame. Part 3 Travelling Identities: Travel Theory and the Emergence of British Tourism: Home tour spectacles; Encountering alterity; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

’Well grounded, Women Writing the Home Tour contributes to travel and tourism, women’s literary culture, and British national identity.’ The Scriblerian 'Kinsley makes a fine book out of an underwritten subject that is also overwritten elsewhere in criticism. Everyone will learn something from her: it offers fresh materials, intelligent orchestrations and an impressive connection of bigger pictures and fine details.' Women’s Writing '... a substantial contribution to current scholarly understandings of literary culture, aesthetic ideals, and the construction of feminine and British identities in the period.' Notes and Queries