Secret journeys : the trope of women's travel in American literature /

Secret Journeys examines the subversive and constructive narrative of female journey from the seventeenth century to the present in such works as John Greenleaf Whittier's Snowbound, Mary Rowlandson's A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mary Rowlandson, Harriet Jacobs's I...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wesley, Marilyn C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1999.
Series:SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Travel in literature.
Travelers' writings, American > History and criticism.
Feminism and literature > United States > History.
Women travelers > United States > Historiography.
Women and literature > United States > History.
Women travelers in literature.
Voyage dans la littérature.
Écrits de voyageurs américains > Histoire et critique.
Voyageuses > États-Unis > Historiographie.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire.
Voyageuses dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
Feminism and literature.
Travelers' writings, American.
Women and literature.
Women travelers > Historiography.
Frauenliteratur
Geschichte
Reise > Motiv
Reiseliteratur
Weibliche Reisende > Motiv
Literatur
United States.
USA
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction the secret journey: The trope of women's travel in American literature
  • Part I. The contravention of values ; Chapter 1. The not unfeared, half-welcome guest: The woman traveler in John Greenleaf Whittier's Snow-Bound
  • Part II. Alternative journey ; Chapter 2. Moving targets: The travel text in a narrative of the captivity and restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson ; Chapter 3. "The perilous journey through the human house": The gothic journey in Willa Cather's The Professor's house and Edith Wharton's Summer ; Chapter 4. A woman's place: The politics of space in Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  • Part III. Travel as social reconstruction ; Chapter 5. The genteel picara: The ethical imperative in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs ; Chapter 6. Sisters of the road: Transience as theme and form in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
  • Part IV. Transformative journeys ; Chapter 7. The developmental journey: Narrative, psychological, and social transformation in Eurdora Welty's Short Fiction ; Chapter 8. The postmodern journey: Elizabeth Bishop's Trope of Travel ; Conclusion Oprah's journey: Reading the constructive narrative
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Index.

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