Transatlantic Women

Transatlantic Women

Author: Beth Lynne Lueck

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1611682770

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Highlights the social and textual complexity of the transatlantic world for American women writers


Roman Fever

Roman Fever

Author: Annamaria Formichella Elsden

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 0814209467

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A number of nineteenth-century American women were privileged and daring enough to travel abroad, using a range of genres to respond discursively to their new surrounding. The author's study groups six women, whose writings were shaped by their encounters with Italy, to investigate women's attempts to leave behind the domestic, in all senses of that term. --book cover.


Passionate Pilgrims

Passionate Pilgrims

Author: Allison Lockwood

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780838622728

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The author has analyzed, sorted, and organized material from almost 500 accounts of travels in Great Britain into a veritable cavalcade of social history. This is a book filled with life and vitality, written with a light touch and always with an eye to social comedy. It presents a true and realistic picture of these people and their periods.