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Author Lawrence, Karen R., author

Title Penelope Voyages : Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition Karen R. Lawrence
Published Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
©1994

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Description 1 online resource
Series Reading women writing
Reading women writing.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Hermes/Penelope -- 1. Exilic Wanderings: Cavendish and Burney -- 2. Composing the Self in Letters: Wollstonecraft's Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark -- 3. "The African Wanderers": Kingsley and Lee -- 4. Woolf's Voyages Out: The Voyage Out and Orlando -- 5 Postmodern "Vessels of Conception": Brooke-Rose and Brophy -- Conclusion: "Questions of Travel" -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary Looking at travel writing by British women from the seventeenth century on, Karen R. Lawrence asks an intriguing question: What happens when, instead of waiting patiently for Odysseus, Penelope voyages and records her journey-when the woman who is expected to waitsets forth herself and traces an itinerary of her own?Lawrence ranges widely, discussing both fiction and nonfiction and traversing the genres of travel letters, realistic and sentimental novels, ethnography, fantasy, and postmodern narrative. In examining works as dissimilar as Margaret Cavendish's rendition of the Renaissance adventure narrative and Christine Brooke-Rose's postmodernist Between, she explores not only the significance of gender for travel writing, but also the value of travel itself for testing the limits of women's social freedoms and restraints.Lawrence shows how writings by Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sarah Lee, Mary Kingsley, Virginia Woolf, and Brigid Brophy reconceive the meanings of femininity in relation to such apparent oppositions as travel/home, other/self, and foreign/domestic. Despite the differences-historical, generic, political-among these writers, Lawrence maintains, they share common insights. Their accounts overturn the dichotomy between adventure and domesticity, demonstrating something illusory within both the stability of home and the freedom of travel
Notes Available through DeGruyter
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-260) and index
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Jun 2019)
SUBJECT Englisch, ... gnd
Subject British -- Foreign countries -- Historiography
English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Travel in literature.
Travel writing -- History
Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- Historiography
Women travelers -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism
English prose literature -- History and criticism
Voyages and travels -- Historiography
Women -- Travel -- Historiography
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Women -- Travel -- Historiography
Voyages and travels -- Historiography
English prose literature
English literature -- Women authors
English prose literature -- Women authors
Travel in literature
Travel writing
Travelers' writings, English
Women and literature -- Historiography
Women travelers -- Biography
Frauenliteratur
Reiseliteratur
Schriftstellerin
Frau Motiv
Engels.
Reisbeschrijvingen.
Vrouwen.
Reizen.
Récits de voyages anglais -- Histoire et critique.
Voyageuses britanniques -- Biographies -- Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise -- Femmes écrivains -- Histoire et critique.
Femmes -- Voyages -- Historiographie.
Voyage -- Dans la littérature.
Femmes écrivains anglaises -- Histoire et critique.
Récits de voyages anglais -- Femmes écrivains.
Voyageuses britanniques.
Resor i litteraturen.
Engelska kvinnliga författare.
Brittiska resenärer -- historia.
Engelska reseskildringar -- historia.
Frau <Motiv>
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author DeGruyter
LC no. 94020853
ISBN 1501732498
9781501732492