LEADER 04130nam 2200661 450 001 9910466668003321 005 20200303141409.0 010 $a1-5017-3249-8 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501732492 035 $a(CKB)4100000005321476 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6012315 035 $a(DE-B1597)515628 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501732492 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6012315 035 $a(OCoLC)1136960799 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000005321476 100 $a20200303d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPenelope voyages $ewomen and travel in the British literary tradition /$fKaren R. Lawrence 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d[1994] 210 4$dİ1994 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aReading women writing 311 $a0-8014-2610-3 311 $a0-8014-9913-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [241]-260) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: Hermes/Penelope --$t1. Exilic Wanderings: Cavendish and Burney --$t2. Composing the Self in Letters: Wollstonecraft's Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark --$t3. "The African Wanderers": Kingsley and Lee --$t4. Woolf's Voyages Out: The Voyage Out and Orlando --$t5 Postmodern "Vessels of Conception": Brooke-Rose and Brophy --$tConclusion: "Questions of Travel" --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aLooking at travel writing by British women from the seventeenth century on, Karen R. Lawrence asks an intriguing question: What happens when, instead of waiting patiently for Odysseus, Penelope voyages and records her journey-when the woman who is expected to wait sets forth herself and traces an itinerary of her own? Lawrence ranges widely, discussing both fiction and nonfiction and traversing the genres of travel letters, realistic and sentimental novels, ethnography, fantasy, and postmodern narrative. In examining works as dissimilar as Margaret Cavendish's rendition of the Renaissance adventure narrative and Christine Brooke-Rose's postmodernist Between, she explores not only the significance of gender for travel writing, but also the value of travel itself for testing the limits of women's social freedoms and restraints. Lawrence shows how writings by Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sarah Lee, Mary Kingsley, Virginia Woolf, and Brigid Brophy reconceive the meanings of femininity in relation to such apparent oppositions as travel/home, other/self, and foreign/domestic. Despite the differences-historical, generic, political-among these writers, Lawrence maintains, they share common insights. Their accounts overturn the dichotomy between adventure and domesticity, demonstrating something illusory within both the stability of home and the freedom of travel. 410 0$aReading women writing. 606 $aTravelers' writings, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen travelers$zGreat Britain$vBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish prose literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistoriography 606 $aBritish$zForeign countries$xHistoriography 606 $aTravel writing$xHistory 606 $aTravel in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTravelers' writings, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen travelers$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish prose literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistoriography. 615 0$aBritish$xHistoriography. 615 0$aTravel writing$xHistory. 615 0$aTravel in literature. 676 $a820.9355 686 $aHG 729$2rvk 700 $aLawrence$b Karen$f1949-$0854124 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466668003321 996 $aPenelope voyages$92454395 997 $aUNINA