Penelope Voyages : : Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition / / Karen R. Lawrence.
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 iti...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Reading Women Writing
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of 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