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Author Voloshkova, Nataliia, author.

Title Bluestockings and travel accounts : reading, writing and collecting / Nataliia Voloshkova
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (98 pages)
Series Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture, 2514-8524
Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture, 2514-8524
Summary This Element proposes to relate the eighteenth-century world of travel and travel writing with the bluestocking salon. It locates eminent British travellers and explorers in the female-presided intellectual space and examines their multifaceted interaction with the bluestockings between 1760 and 1799. The study shows how the bluestockings acquired knowledge of the world through reading, discussing, writing and collecting travel accounts. It explores the 'social life' of manuscript and printed travel texts in the circle, their popularity and impact on the bluestockings. This Element builds upon the body of evidence provided by their published and unpublished diaries, correspondence and private library catalogues
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism
Travel in literature.
Women and literature.
English literature.
English literature -- Women authors.
Travel in literature.
Travelers' writings, English.
Women and literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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