Travel and travail : early modern women, English drama, and the wider world / edited and with an introduction by Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Andrea.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Akhimie, Patricia, editor, writer of introduction.

Andrea, Bernadette Diane, editor, writer of introduction.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Early modern cultural studies (Lincoln, Neb.)

Early modern cultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

Women travelers in literature.

English prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English prose literature.

Women travelers.

Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, English.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.

English prose literature--Women authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 366 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln [Nebraska] : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Travel and Travail offers the reader a history of women's travel in the Early Modern period"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World; Part 1. Early Modern Women Travelers: Global and Local Trajectories; 1. Desdemona and Mrs. Keeling; 2. A Stranger Bride: Mariam Khan and the East India Company; 3. Sailing to India: Women, Travel, and Crisis in the Seventeenth Century; 4. Teresa Sampsonia Sherley: Amazon, Traveler, and Consort; 5. The Global Travels of Teresa Sampsonia Sherley's Carmelite Relic; 6. Gender and Travel Discourse: Richard Lassels's "The Voyage of the Lady Catherine Whetenall from Brussells into Italy" (1650)7. Advance and Retreat: Reading English Colonial Choreographies of Pocahontas; 8. Lady Anne Clifford's Way and Aristocratic Women's Travel; Part 2. Early Modern Women and the Globe: Gendered Travel on the English Stage; 9. Mapping Women: Place Names and a Woman's Place; 10. Eroticizing Women's Travel: Desdemona and the Desire for Adventure in Othello; 11. Desdemona's Divided Duty: Gender and Courtesy in Othello; 12. From Adventure to Danger in the Travels of Desdemona and Miranda13. Marian Mobility, Black Madonnas, and the Cleopatra Complex; 14. Precarious Travail, Gender, and Narration in Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World; 15. Traveling Companions: Shakespeare's As You Like It and the Book of Ruth; 16. English Women, Romance, and Global Travel in Thomas Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West, Part I; Afterword: Looking for the Women in Early Modern Travel Writing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1496202260

9781496202260

OCLC:

1060181837

Publisher Number:

99981827037