Women, writing, and travel in the eighteenth century / Katrina O'Loughlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Loughlin, Katrina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English prose literature--18th century--History and criticism.

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

British--Foreign countries--History--18th century.

Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.

Women authors, English--Travel.

Voyages and travels--History--18th century.

Travel writing--History--18th century.

Literary form--History--18th century.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jun 2018).

ISBN:

1-108-67675-8

1-316-10493-1

1-108-59992-3