British travellers in Holland during the Stuart period : : Edward Browne and John Locke as tourists in the United Provinces / / by C.D. van Strien.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 42
• VerfasserIn: Strien, C. D. van,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1993.
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 42.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (470 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1989.

The book is a comprehensive study of British travel in the United Provinces during the Stuart Period and largely based on journals and correspondence never before published. After a discussion of travel journals and correspondence as a literary genre with conventions of its own, the book focuses on the more concrete activities of the tourist: transport, accommodation and sightseeing. A large number of guidebooks provided the necessary information and helped the tourist to write his observations on Holland and the Dutch. Letters by Edward Browne (1644-1708), passages from the journal of John Locke (1632-1704) and the financial accounts of the third Earl of Orrery (1670-1703) take the reader through most of the provinces and give a first-hand impression of what travel was like for various categories of tourists in those days. This book is indispensable for all scholars of Anglo-Dutch relations in this period who are interested in learning about day to day experiences of Britons visiting Holland.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- General Introduction -- Chapter I: Seventeenth-Century Travel Accounts -- Chapter II: The Journey Through the United Provinces -- Chapter III: Sightseeing -- Chapter Iv: General Observations Made By Travellers -- General Conclusion -- Appendix I: Edward Browne's Journey of 1668 -- Appendix II: John Locke's Journey of 1684 -- Appendix III: Orrery Accounts 1686-9 -- Appendix IV: List of Inns -- Appendix V: Chronological List of Travellers -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustrations I-XIV.