Katrina O'Loughlin

Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

A wide-ranging exploration of women's travel writing between 1714 and 1789, emphasising women's contribution to processes of cultural change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781107088528
• ISBN-10: 1107088526
• Artikelnr.: 50104175

Autorenporträt

Katrina O'Loughlin is Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellow in English and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australia. She writes on eighteenth-century literature and culture, particularly on the histories of space, travel, and emotion. With colleagues, she has edited three volumes on different aspects of the history of emotions, and has published numerous journal articles and chapters in academic books. She is currently preparing new annotated editions of the Memoirs of Mrs Harriet Newell (1815) and Eliza Fay's Letters from India (1817).

Inhaltsangabe

'The paper globe': women, writing, and travel in the eighteenth century; 1.
'A very diligent curiosity': Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Embassy Letters;
2. 'Wrecked on seas of ink': publicity and sovereignty of taste in Lady
Craven's Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople; 3. 'Entre nous': the
sociability of feeling in Jane Vigor's Letters from a Lady in Russia; 4.
'No small wonder to see myself in print': virtuous commerce and Eliza
Justice's A Voyage to Russia; 5. 'My Travels have been to the Moon and the
Stars': Janet Schaw's journal and Atlantic sociability; 6. 'Thorns and
thistles': Anna Maria Falconbridge's Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone;
Conclusion. La 'Dame pensive'.