British Women's Travel Writings in the Era of the French Revolution
Author: Tsai-Yeh Wang
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 375
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Author: Tsai-Yeh Wang
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 375
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Published: 2010
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis thesis intends to investigate how educated British women travellers challenged conventional female roles and how they participated in the political culture in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era. Part One will discuss those who tried hard to challenge or to correct traditionally-defined femininity and to prove themselves useful in their society. Many of them negotiated with and broadened the traditionally defined femininity in this age. Part Two will take Burke and WollstonecraftÂ's debate as the central theme in order to discuss chronologically the British women travellersÂ' political responses to the Revolution controversy. When the Revolution degenerated into Terror and wars, the Burkean view became the main strand of British women travellersÂ' political thinking. Under the threat of Revolutionary France and during the Napoleonic Wars, a popular conservatism and patriotism developed in Britain. Part Three will use the travel journals of the women who went to France during the Amiens Truce and after the fall of Napoleon in 1814 to analyse the formation of British national identity and nationalism in this period. In the end, these educated British women both stimulated and contributed to the formation of British political and cultural identity at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Author: Caroline Franklin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-07-30
Total Pages: 3102
ISBN-13: 1000743632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Romantic Period saw a massive advance in British colonial expansion, which was accompanied by a corresponding expansion in travel writings. These published letters, journals and books provided British readers with detailed accounts of new and exotic locations and thus engaged the reading public with expansionist enterprises. Covering the period of the French Revolution up until Victoria’s ascendancy to the throne, and featuring journeys spanning France and central Europe, India, and South America, this collection brings together some of the most interesting travel accounts written by women at this time. The authors included come from a variety of social backgrounds and their written styles are as varied as their journeys. For instance, Williams and Morgan were professional writers who may be described as ‘feminists’, while Fay and Falconbridge were ordinary women who had been through extraordinary experiences.
Author: Stephen Bending
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-11-01
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1040281257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart of a seven-volume facsimile set, this volume comprises firsthand accounts of France in the 1790s. It includes Helen Maria Williams' letters which narrate the fall of Robespierre in 1794 and her 1798 book on Switzerland which comments sceptically on the necessary coexistence of liberty with peace.
Author: Stephen Bending
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-10-28
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1040236316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA seven-volume facsimile set which comprises accounts of France in the 1790s. The texts are drawn from the Chawton House Library collection.
Author: Linda Van Netten Blimke
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2022-07-15
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1684484073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteenth-century Britain, and posits its centrality to women’s engagement with national and gender politics. This study examines four travel narratives written by women between 1774 and 1795, convincingly arguing that they effectively deploy the discourse of sensibility to engage with debates around Britain’s national identity during the French and American Revolutions. Van Netten Blimke contends that Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey (1768)—which first introduced sentimental discourse to the travelogue—facilitated women’s gradual inclusion into this previously male-dominated genre, effectively paving the way for women to influence the country’s sociopolitical transformation. These four previously understudied works successfully combine eyewitness authority with the language of sensibility to mount impassioned interventions in their nation’s perception and practice of revolutionary politics, at a time when its national identity was most in flux.
Author: Stephen Bending
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 614
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katherine Turner
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTurner here explores the related themes of national character, class and gender, showing how this network of concerns shapes the genre of European travelogue and constitutes its importance as a discourse for fuller understanding of the period.
Author: A. Craciun
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-08-01
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0230501885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritish Women Writers and the French Revolution provides an overview of a wide range of British women's writings on the French Revolution, from writers sympathetic to the Revolution like Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, and Charlotte Smith, to anti-revolutionary writers like Hannah More and Jane West. Based on new research in French and British archives and libraries, the book uncovers little-known writings by British women, and argues that these writers developed a distinct antinationalism, in some cases even a feminist cosmopolitanism, in their responses to the European revolutionary crisis.
Author: Barbara Schaff
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-09-07
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 3110497050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.