Penelope Voyages : Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition

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...

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Main Author: Lawrence, Karen R. (Author)
Corporate Author: DeGruyter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Series:Reading women writing.
Subjects:
British > Foreign countries > Historiography.
English prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Travel in literature.
Travel writing > History.
Travelers' writings, English > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > Historiography.
Women travelers > Great Britain > Biography > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Available via EBSCO eBook Collection
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