Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9781107459335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str.

Katrina O'Loughlin

Opis

A wide-ranging exploration of women's travel writing between 1714 and 1789, emphasising women's contribution to processes of cultural change.

Recenzje

'Impressive in its geographical scope … this valuable contribution to studies in travel writing reanimates crucial voices in eighteenth-century literature and culture. Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century would interest scholars focused on alternative literary histories of subjectivity (as distinct from the novel), premodern travel writing, women's writing, eighteenth-century colonial discourse, the emergence of a secular middle class, politics and British aristocratic identity, eighteenth-century Russia and the Levant, and more.' Laura Williamson Ambrose, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Spis treści

'The paper globe': women, writing, and travel in the eighteenth century; 1. 'A very diligent curiosity': Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Embassy Letters; 2. 'Wrecked on seas of ink': publicity and sovereignty of taste in Lady Craven's Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople; 3. 'Entre nous': the sociability of feeling in Jane Vigor's Letters from a Lady in Russia; 4. 'No small wonder to see myself in print': virtuous commerce and Eliza Justice's A Voyage to Russia; 5. 'My Travels have been to the Moon and the Stars': Janet Schaw's journal and Atlantic sociability; 6. 'Thorns and thistles': Anna Maria Falconbridge's Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone; Conclusion. La 'Dame pensive'.