Walking Histories, 1800-1914

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Modern Walks....Pages 1-32
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Walking the Boundaries between Modernity and Tradition: Perambulation and ‘Beating the Bounds’ in Nineteenth-Century Hungary....Pages 35-55
Strolling the Romantic City: Gardens, Panoramas, and Middle-Class Elites in Early Nineteenth-Century Prague....Pages 57-85
Rites of Passage: Youthful Walking and the Rhythms of the City, c.1850–1914....Pages 87-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Walking as Labour in Henry Mayhew’s London....Pages 115-137
‘Efficiency on Foot’? The Well-Run Estate of Nineteenth-Century England....Pages 139-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Accidents Will Happen: Risk, Climbing and Pedestrianism in the ‘Golden Age’ of English Mountaineering, 1850–1865....Pages 165-194
‘A Good Walk Spoiled’? Golfers and the Experience of Landscape during the Late Nineteenth Century....Pages 195-217
Urban Space and Travel on the Jewish Sabbath in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 219-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
The Saints Who Walk: Walking, Piety and Technologies of Circulation in Modern South Asia....Pages 243-264
Walking in Andrei Bely’s Petersburg: Active Perception and Embodied Experience of the City....Pages 265-285
Walking and Environmentalism in the Career of James Bryce: Mountaineer, Scholar, Statesman, 1838–1922....Pages 287-318
Back Matter....Pages 319-332