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Penelope Voyages : Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Reading women writing.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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