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Autore |
Imbarrato Susan Clair |
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Titolo |
Traveling women : narrative visions of early America / / Susan Clair Imbarrato |
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Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2006 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (268 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism |
American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
Travel writing - History - 18th century |
Travel writing - History - 19th century |
Women travelers - United States - History |
United States Description and travel |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-245) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The language of travel : the practical and the picturesque -- Ordinary travel : public houses and travel conditions -- Writing into the Ohio frontier : genteel expectations and rustic realities -- Literary crossroads : travel narrative, poetry, and novel -- Capturing experience : travel narrative and letter, a comparative view. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Women's travel narratives recording journeys north and south along the eastern seaboard and west onto the Ohio frontier enhance our historical understanding of early America. Drawing extensively from primary sources, Travelling Women document's women's role in westward settlement and emphasizes travel as a culture-building event. Susan Clair Imbarrato closely examines women's accounts of their journeys from 1700 to 1830, including Sarah Kemble Knight's well-known journal of her trip from Boston to New York in 1704 and many lesser-known accounts, such as Sarah Beavis's 1779 journal of her travel to Ohio via Kentucky and Susan Edwards Johnson's account or her 1801-2 journey from Connecticut to North Carolina. In the women's keen observations and entertaining wit, readers will find bravado mixed with hesitation, as women set forth on business, to |
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