Penelope Voyages: Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition

Karen R. Lawrence

Published by Cornell University Press 1994

Penelope Voyages

Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition

Karen R. Lawrence

In the series Reading Women Writing

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501732492

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About this book

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...

Author / Editor information

Karen R. Lawrence is Professor of English at the University of Utah. She is the author of books including The Odyssey of Style in Ulysses and the editor of Decolonizing Traditions: New Views of Twentieth-Century "British" Literary Canons and The McGraw-Hill Guide to English Literature.

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Lawrence provides an important interrogation of travel writing as a genre and travel as a formative concept in women's identity. Women's narrative wandering is, according to Lawrence, a 'risky' and 'rewardingly excessive' phenomenon (240), of which Penelope Voyages is both an analysis and an example.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Hermes/Penelope Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Exilic Wanderings: Cavendish and Burney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
2. Composing the Self in Letters: Wollstonecraft's Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
3. "The African Wanderers": Kingsley and Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
4. Woolf's Voyages Out: The Voyage Out and Orlando Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
5 Postmodern "Vessels of Conception": Brooke-Rose and Brophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Conclusion: "Questions of Travel" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Keywords: Literary Studies; Gender Studies; Travel Guides & Travel Writing

eBook

Published: August 6, 2018
ISBN: 9781501732492