{"product_id":"luggage-9781501329296","title":"Luggage","description":"\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou can't think about travel without thinking about luggage. And baggage has baggage. Susan Harlan takes readers on a journey with the suitcases that support, accessorize, and accompany our lives. Along the way, she shows how the materials of travel - the carry-ons, totes, trunks, and train cases of the past and present - have stories to tell about displacement, home, gender, class, consumption, and labor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLuggage\u003c\/i\u003e considers bags as carefully curated microcosms of our domestic and professional selves, charting the evolution of travel across literature, film, and art. A simple suitcase, it turns out, contains more than you might think. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Harlan\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University, USA. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMemories of War in Early Modern England \u003c\/i\u003e(2016). Her writing has appeared in publications including the \u003ci\u003eGuardian, \u003c\/i\u003ethe Awl, \u003ci\u003e t\u003c\/i\u003ehe Bitter Southerner, Jezebel, and Atlas Obscura.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51615425822994,"sku":"9781501329296","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ff657cb2-225d-49d7-a502-03bfde05ff06.jpg?v=1758095643","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/luggage-9781501329296","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}