Gender, genre, and identity in women's travel writing / Kristi Siegel, editor
- Published
- New York : P. Lang, [2004]
- Copyright Date
- ©2004
- Physical Description
- vii, 320 pages ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Siegel, Kristi, 1951-
- Contents
- Introduction: Intersections: Women's travel and theory / Kristi Siegel -- Gender: The Gaze of the Victorian Woman Traveler: Spectacles and Phenomena / Ruth Y. Jenkins -- Lady Mary Montagu and the "Boundaries" of Europe / Sukanya Banerjee -- Women's Travel and the Rhetoric of Peril: It's Suicide to be Abroad / Kristi Siegel -- The Daughters of Thelma and Louise: New? Aesthetics the Road / Jessica Enevold -- Women Writers and the Internal Combustion Engine: Passing Penelope Pitstop / Rachel A. Jennings -- Genre: Frances Trollope's America and Anna Leonowens's Siam: Questionable Travel and Problematic Writing / Chu-Chueh Cheng -- Nancy Prince and her Gothic Odyssey: A Veiled Lady / Sarah Brusky -- and Zilpha Elaw's Serial Domesticity: An Unsentimental Journey / Rosetta R. Haynes -- Women's Travel Writing and the Politics of Location: Somewhere In-Between / Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson -- The Problem of Narrative Authority: Catherine Oddy and Kate Karko / Corinne Fowler -- Identity: A Protestant Critique of Catholicism: Frances Calderon de la Barca in Nineteenth-Century Mexico / Linda Ledford-Miller -- Identity in Rosamond Lawrence's Indian Embers: "I cannot somehow find myself" / Terri A. Hasseler -- American National Identity Abroad: The Travels of Nancy Prince / Kristin Fitzpatrick -- Alexandra David-Neel's Home in the Himalayas: Where the Heart Lies / Margaret McColley -- A feminist lens for Binx Bolling's Journey in The Moviegoer: Traveling toward wholeness / Kathleen Scullin.
- Subject(s)
- Travelers' writings, English—History and criticism
- Women travelers—Great Britain—Biography—History and criticism
- Women travelers—United States—Biography—History and criticism
- English prose literature—Women authors—History and criticism
- American prose literature—Women authors—History and criticism
- Travelers' writings, American—History and criticism
- Women and literature—English-speaking countries
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Travel in literature
- Literary form
- ISBN
- 0820449059 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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