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Penelope Voyages : Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Reading Women Writing SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994Copyright date: ©1994Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501732492
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Penelope VoyagesDDC classification:
  • 820.9/355
LOC classification:
  • PR778.T72 .L397 1994
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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