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Title Women rewriting boundaries : Victorian women travel writers / edited by Precious McKenzie Stearns
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 194 pages) : illustrations
Summary Women Rewriting Boundaries expands the work of gender and literary scholars by offering fresh insights on how to read travel writing by women. It analyzes the connections between class, gender, physicality, and sexuality as found in nineteenth-century literature. The authors discuss the myriad ways in which women writers reinforced and challenged Victorian social norms. Inspired by a special topics panel, "Women Writing Boundaries," presented at the 2013 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association's annual convention, this edited collection will be a thought-provoking resource for college- leve
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Travel writing -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
Women travelers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English prose literature
English prose literature -- Women authors
Travel writing
Women travelers
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author McKenzie Stearns, Precious, 1975- editor.
ISBN 9781443858502
1443858501