Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteenth-century Britain, and posits its centrality to womenâ s engagement with national and gender politics.
Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteenth-century Britain, and posits its centrality to womenâ s engagement with national and gender politics.
LINDA VAN NETTEN BLIMKE is an associate professor of English at Concordia University of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, where she teaches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. She is the coeditor of Crossing Canada, 1907: Hope Hook's Diary.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Critical Contexts: Eighteenth-Century Women's Travel Writing Part One: Mobile Feelings: Mapping the Sentimental Traveler 1 "Altogether of a Different Cast": The Development of the Sentimental Traveler Part Two: Divided Sympathies: Female Sentimental Travel Writers and the American Revolution 2 "I Am Sure You Will Share My Feelings": Janet Schaw's Journal of a Lady of Quality, Imperial Desire, and the American Revolution 3 The Ties That Bind: Sentimentalizing Colonialism in A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland Part Three: Sensibility in Distress: Female Sentimental Travel Writers and the French Revolution 4 Revitalizing Sensibility: Mary Morgan's Defense of Emotional Engagement in A Tour to Milford Haven 5 "A Renovation of Existence": Helen Maria Williams's A Tour in Switzerland and the Renewal of Political Vision Epilogue: "An Affair of the Heart" Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Introduction: Critical Contexts: Eighteenth-Century Women's Travel Writing Part One: Mobile Feelings: Mapping the Sentimental Traveler 1 "Altogether of a Different Cast": The Development of the Sentimental Traveler Part Two: Divided Sympathies: Female Sentimental Travel Writers and the American Revolution 2 "I Am Sure You Will Share My Feelings": Janet Schaw's Journal of a Lady of Quality, Imperial Desire, and the American Revolution 3 The Ties That Bind: Sentimentalizing Colonialism in A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland Part Three: Sensibility in Distress: Female Sentimental Travel Writers and the French Revolution 4 Revitalizing Sensibility: Mary Morgan's Defense of Emotional Engagement in A Tour to Milford Haven 5 "A Renovation of Existence": Helen Maria Williams's A Tour in Switzerland and the Renewal of Political Vision Epilogue: "An Affair of the Heart" Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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