04097nam 2200649 450 991079694660332120200303141409.01-5017-3249-810.7591/9781501732492(CKB)4100000005321476(DE-B1597)515628(DE-B1597)9781501732492(Au-PeEL)EBL6012315(OCoLC)1136960799(MiAaPQ)EBC6012315(EXLCZ)99410000000532147620200303d1994 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPenelope voyages women and travel in the British literary tradition /Karen R. LawrenceIthaca, New York ;London :Cornell University Press,[1994]©19941 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) illustrationsReading women writing0-8014-2610-3 0-8014-9913-5 Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-260) and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Introduction: Hermes/Penelope --1. Exilic Wanderings: Cavendish and Burney --2. Composing the Self in Letters: Wollstonecraft's Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark --3. "The African Wanderers": Kingsley and Lee --4. Woolf's Voyages Out: The Voyage Out and Orlando --5 Postmodern "Vessels of Conception": Brooke-Rose and Brophy --Conclusion: "Questions of Travel" --Works Cited --IndexLooking 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 wait sets forth herself and traces an itinerary of her own? Lawrence ranges widely, discussing both fiction and nonfiction and traversing the genres of travel letters, realistic and sentimental novels, ethnography, fantasy, and postmodern narrative. In examining works as dissimilar as Margaret Cavendish's rendition of the Renaissance adventure narrative and Christine Brooke-Rose's postmodernist Between, she explores not only the significance of gender for travel writing, but also the value of travel itself for testing the limits of women's social freedoms and restraints. Lawrence shows how writings by Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sarah Lee, Mary Kingsley, Virginia Woolf, and Brigid Brophy reconceive the meanings of femininity in relation to such apparent oppositions as travel/home, other/self, and foreign/domestic. Despite the differences-historical, generic, political-among these writers, Lawrence maintains, they share common insights. Their accounts overturn the dichotomy between adventure and domesticity, demonstrating something illusory within both the stability of home and the freedom of travel.Reading women writing.Travelers' writings, EnglishHistory and criticismWomen travelersGreat BritainBiographyHistory and criticismEnglish prose literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistoriographyBritishForeign countriesHistoriographyTravel writingHistoryTravel in literatureTravelers' writings, EnglishHistory and criticism.Women travelersHistory and criticism.English prose literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistoriography.BritishHistoriography.Travel writingHistory.Travel in literature.820.9355HG 729rvkLawrence Karen1949-1100701MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910796946603321Penelope voyages3700126UNINA