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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524668103321

Autore

Steadman Jennifer Bernhardt <1971->

Titolo

Traveling Economies : American Women's Travel Writing / / Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2007

©2007

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 208 p.) : : ill. ;

Disciplina

810.9/320922

Soggetti

Travel in literature

Feminism in literature

Women travelers in literature

Women authors, American - 19th century - Political and social views

Women travelers - United States - Social conditions - 19th century

Women travelers - United States - History - 19th century

American prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism

American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"50, 1957-2007, Ohio State", on cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ragged-edge travelers Amy Morris Bradley and Nancy Prince evaluate the economies of travel -- Scolding the nation: the political travel writing of Anne Royall -- Traveling uplift: Mary Ann Shadd Cary creates and connects Black communities -- A "singular spectacle of a female": Frances Wright's traveling figure -- To the summit of equality: a feminist traveler, bloomers, and the antebellum feminist press.