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Women, writing, and travel in the eighteenth century
- Title
- Women, writing, and travel in the eighteenth century / Katrina O'Loughlin.
- Author
- O'Loughlin, Katrina
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- viii, 280 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- The eighteenth century witnessed the publication of an unprecedented number of voyages and travels, genuine and fictional. Within a genre distinguished by its diversity, curiosity, and experimental impulses, Katrina O'Loughlin investigates not just how women in the eighteenth century experienced travel, but also how travel writing facilitated their participation in literary and political culture. She canvases a range of accounts by intrepid women, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's 'Turkish Embassy Letters', Lady Craven's 'Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople', Eliza Justice's 'A Voyage to Russia', and Anna Maria Falconbridge's 'Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone'. Moving from Ottoman courts to theatres of war, O'Loughlin shows how gender frames access to people and spaces outside Enlightenment and Romantic Britain, and how travel provides women with a powerful cultural form for re-imagining their place in the world.
- Subjects
- Women travelers
- Travelers' writings, English
- English prose literature > Women authors
- Travelers' writings, English > Influence
- English prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- 1700-1799
- Travelers' writings, English > Women authors > History and criticism
- Travelers' writings, English > 18th century > History and criticism
- History
- Great Britain
- Women travelers > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-273) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-7985
- ISBN
- 9781107088528
- 1107088526
- LCCN
- 99977776307
- OCLC
- 1012776751
- Author
- O'Loughlin, Katrina, author.
- Title
- Women, writing, and travel in the eighteenth century / Katrina O'Loughlin.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-273) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1799
- Other Standard Identifier
- 99977776307
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-7985