Penelope Voyages : Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition.
Lawrence, Karen R.
Penelope Voyages : Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (289 pages) - Reading Women Writing Series . - Reading Women Writing Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- 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.
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.
9781501732492
Travelers' writings, English-History and criticism.
Women travelers-Great Britain-Biography-History and criticism.
English prose literature-Women authors-History and criticism.
Women and literature-Great Britain-Historiography.
British-Foreign countries-Historiography.
Travel writing-History.
Travel in literature.
Electronic books.
PR778.T72 .L397 1994
820.9/355
Penelope Voyages : Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (289 pages) - Reading Women Writing Series . - Reading Women Writing Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- 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.
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.
9781501732492
Travelers' writings, English-History and criticism.
Women travelers-Great Britain-Biography-History and criticism.
English prose literature-Women authors-History and criticism.
Women and literature-Great Britain-Historiography.
British-Foreign countries-Historiography.
Travel writing-History.
Travel in literature.
Electronic books.
PR778.T72 .L397 1994
820.9/355