Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility, 1784-1814

ISBN-13: 9781316633380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 307 str.

Ingrid Horrocks

Opis

A history of the writing of mobility in the Romantic period, through the work of major women writers.

Recenzje

'… this study brings welcome attention to some less familiar texts and performs a skilful rebalancing of the critical literature on 'distressed women' in Romantic writing-amply demonstrating their significance to emerging perceptions of 'an increasingly mobile world'.' Robin Jarvis, The BARS Review

Spis treści

Introduction: reluctant wanderers; 1. 'Circling eye' to 'houseless stranger': the shifting landscape of the long poem; 2. The desolations of wandering: Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets; 3. 'The irresistible force of circumstances': the poetics of wandering in Radcliffean Gothic; 4. 'Take, o world! thy much indebted tear!': Mary Wollstonecraft travels; 5. 'No motive of choice': Frances Burney and the wandering novel; Coda: 'He could afford to suffer': losses and gains.