John Leland: travels and connections
The importance of domestic travel
The politics of rivers: real and imaginary journeys
The river poem: connection, power and nationhood
River improvement and the poetry of the waterman
Place, prospect and commerce in seventeenth-century poetry
Networks: highways and the nation
Never out of their way: commoners on the road
Inns and alehouses on stage
Anxieties of mobility: Jonson's New Inn
4. The progress: royal travellers and common authors
Elizabeth and the politics of place
Progress texts and common authors
5. Tourism: Celia Fiennes and her context
6. Traffic: John Taylor and his context
The industrious traveller
Taylor's nation: the spaces of circulation
