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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
- 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.
- English prose literature--Women authors.
- Women travelers.
- Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings, English.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 366 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln [Nebraska] : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2019]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781496210319
- 149621031X
- Publisher Number:
- 99988509160
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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