Telling Travels

Selected Writings by Nineteenth-Century American Women Abroad

Buch | Softcover

337 Seiten

1994
Northern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-0-87580-561-0 (ISBN)

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With the advent of the "steam palace" in the nineteenth century, American women set out to see the world. Women from various walks of life—prototypes of Daisy Miller, Isabel Archer, and Undine Spragg—crossed the oceans in record numbers. As they traveled abroad to faraway destinations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, China, and India, many recorded their experiences and their impressions of foreign lands.

Women speak for themselves in Telling Travels, a selection of narratives from travel books by nineteenth-century American women. Included here are such famed authors as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Nellie Bly, as well as rediscovered travel writers. Whether musing on the vagaries of journeying abroad or commenting on the history, politics, and customs of other lands, the writers express their cultural predispositions and reflect the changing dynamics of gender politics.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Note on the Text

Emma Hart Willard: Journal and Letters, from France and Great-Britain

Abby Jane Morrell: Narrative of a Voyage

Sarah Rogers Haight: Letters from the Old World

Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home

Caroline Stansbury Kirkland: Holidays Abroad

Margaret Fuller Ossoli: At Home and Abroad

Nancy Prince: A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands

Julia Ward Howe: From the Oak to the Olive

Helen Hunt Jackson: Bits of Travel

Kate Field: Hap-Hazard

Lucy Seaman Bainbridge: Round-the-World Letters

Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman: Nellie Bly's Book

Fanny Bullock Workman: Algerian Memories

Constance Fenimore Woolson: Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu

Agnes McAllister: A Lone Woman in Africa

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-87580-561-2 / 0875805612
ISBN-13	978-0-87580-561-0 / 9780875805610
Zustand	Neuware