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Between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth century, the
possibilities for travelling within Britain became increasingly
various owing to improved transport systems and the popularization
of numerous tourist spots. Women Writing the Home Tour, 1682-1812
examines women's participation in that burgeoning touristic
tradition, considering the ways in which the changing face of
British travel and its writing can be traced through the accounts
produced by the women who journeyed England, Scotland, and Wales
during this important period. This book explores female-authored
home tour travel narratives in print, as well as manuscript works
that have hitherto been neglected in criticism. Discussing texts
produced by authors including Celia Fiennes, Ann Radcliffe and
Dorothy Wordsworth alongside the works of lesser-known travellers
such as Mary Morgan and Dorothy Richardson, Kinsley considers the
construction, and also the destabilization, of gender, class, and
national identity through chapters that emphasize the diversity and
complexity of this rich body of writings.
Between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth century, the
possibilities for travelling within Britain became increasingly
various owing to improved transport systems and the popularization
of numerous tourist spots. Women Writing the Home Tour, 1682-1812
examines women's participation in that burgeoning touristic
tradition, considering the ways in which the changing face of
British travel and its writing can be traced through the accounts
produced by the women who journeyed England, Scotland, and Wales
during this important period. This book explores female-authored
home tour travel narratives in print, as well as manuscript works
that have hitherto been neglected in criticism. Discussing texts
produced by authors including Celia Fiennes, Ann Radcliffe and
Dorothy Wordsworth alongside the works of lesser-known travellers
such as Mary Morgan and Dorothy Richardson, Kinsley considers the
construction, and also the destabilization, of gender, class, and
national identity through chapters that emphasize the diversity and
complexity of this rich body of writings.
The essays in this book offer new perspectives on the concept of
liminality. They explore the relevance and significance of the
limen or threshold from a variety of critical and theoretical
perspectives, and across a broad range of historical periods. The
authors all seek to revisit key questions raised in recent literary
and cultural criticism, whilst also moving that discussion in new
directions. In particular, the essays stress the importance of
defining liminality for particular literary and cultural contexts,
and highlight the fact that whilst it is liberating and progressive
in some instances, in others it is violent and oppressive.
Examining texts from the early modern to the postmodern periods, by
authors on both sides of the Atlantic, the volume embraces a wide
range of literary forms, including novels, travel narratives,
religious texts, and philosophical treatises; it also includes
consideration of non-literary forms of representation such as
photography. This book reveals the complexity of the concept of
liminality, and underscores its powerfulness and potential for
understanding the ways in which both individuals and communities,
in the past and in the present day, negotiate states of transition,
and give expression to their experience of being 'in-between'.
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