An Anthology of Women's Travel Writings (Paperback)

This anthology aims to challenge stereotypes of women travellers. Rather than simply presenting writings by Victorian women who travelled bravely around the world disregarding social convention and danger, the editors present a range of writing and possible ways of being a woman traveller. As well as the 'eccentric' woman traveller, the editors have included writings by those who might be seen as failed travellers, cautious and conventional travellers and those who did not conform to the adventurous heroine stereotype. Because travelling as a woman and writing as a woman presents the author with a number of textual problems which must be negotiated, Foster and Mills have chosen to include writings which confronted these problems and which resolved them (or did not resolve them) in different ways. These textual problems include the depiction of other women, the representation of spatial relations, the negotiations undertaken in relation to the adventure heroine narrative and character and the position taken by the author in relation to the representation of knowledge. These issues are all crucial in relation to travel writing by women , and the women, whose writing has been collected together in this anthology have made bold decisions in relation to them. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Exploring Travel
Release date:	September 2002
First published:	2002
Editors:	Shirley Foster • Sara Mills
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	252
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-5018-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > Classic travel writing Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Travel > Travel writing > Classic travel writing
LSN:	0-7190-5018-9
Barcode:	9780719050183

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