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Defoe's Tour and the Historiography of Early Modern Britain
Author(s) -
Rogers Pat
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal for eighteenth‐century studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1754-0208
pISSN - 1754-0194
DOI - 10.1111/1754-0208.12626
Subject(s) - historiography , tourism , navy , politics , architecture , history , value (mathematics) , spanish civil war , geography , archaeology , political science , law , machine learning , computer science
The most heavily quarried contemporary source on Britain in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries is Daniel Defoe's Tour (1724‐6). Its findings have been exploited in accounts of the politics, society, economy, architecture, literature and geography of the early modern nation. It has been used by historians of the family, women, religion, art, popular culture, shopping, weather, landscape, transport, leisure, travel and tourism, topography, antiquarianism, archaeology, gambling, the Navy, Civil War battlefields, dialect and industrial archaeology. This article charts the extent of Defoe's influence on our understanding of the age, analysing its value as a connected survey of Britain.