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Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century

Katrina O'Loughlin (University of Western Australia, Perth)

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English
Cambridge University Press
25 June 2020
The eighteenth century witnessed the publication of an unprecedented number of voyages and travels, genuine and fictional. Within a genre distinguished by its diversity, curiosity, and experimental impulses, Katrina O'Loughlin investigates not just how women in the eighteenth century experienced travel, but also how travel writing facilitated their participation in literary and political culture. She canvases a range of accounts by intrepid women, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters, Lady Craven's Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople, Eliza Justice's A Voyage to Russia, and Anna Maria Falconbridge's Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone. Moving from Ottoman courts to theatres of war, O'Loughlin shows how gender frames access to people and spaces outside Enlightenment and Romantic Britain, and how travel provides women with a powerful cultural form for re-imagining their place in the world.

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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 230mm,  Width: 153mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   450g
ISBN:   9781107459335
ISBN 10:   1107459338
Pages:   288
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Katrina O'Loughlin is Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellow in English and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australia. She writes on eighteenth-century literature and culture, particularly on the histories of space, travel, and emotion. With colleagues, she has edited three volumes on different aspects of the history of emotions, and has published numerous journal articles and chapters in academic books. She is currently preparing new annotated editions of the Memoirs of Mrs Harriet Newell (1815) and Eliza Fay's Letters from India (1817).

Reviews for Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century

'Impressive in its geographical scope … this valuable contribution to studies in travel writing reanimates crucial voices in eighteenth-century literature and culture. Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century would interest scholars focused on alternative literary histories of subjectivity (as distinct from the novel), premodern travel writing, women's writing, eighteenth-century colonial discourse, the emergence of a secular middle class, politics and British aristocratic identity, eighteenth-century Russia and the Levant, and more.' Laura Williamson Ambrose, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal


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