| An Anthology of Women's Travel Writings Contributor(s): Foster, Shirley (Editor), Mills, Sara (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0719050189 ISBN-13: 9780719050183 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2002 Annotation: From eccentric, to cautious, to conventional, "An anthology of Women's Travel Writing" aims to challenge stereotypes of women travelers by presenting a range of possible forms of writing and new archetypes of female travelers. These diverse writings also attempt to confront the textual problems which result from both writing and traveling as a woman, such as the depiction of other women, the representation of spatial relations, and the relationship to the adventure hero narrative. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Pictorials (see Also Photography - Subjects & Themes - Regional) - Literary Criticism | Feminist |
| Dewey: 910.82 |
| LCCN: 2002026518 |
| Series: Exploring Travel |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 252 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This anthology aims to challenge stereotypes of women travellers. Rather than simply presenting writings by Victorian women who travelled bravely around the world disregarding social convention and danger, the editors present a range of writing and possible ways of being a woman traveller. As well as the 'eccentric' woman traveller, the editors have included writings by those who might be seen as failed travellers, cautious and conventional travellers and those who did not conform to the adventurous heroine stereotype. Because travelling as a woman and writing as a woman presents the author with a number of textual problems which must be negotiated, Foster and Mills have chosen to include writings which confronted these problems and which resolved them (or did not resolve them) in different ways. These textual problems include the depiction of other women, the representation of spatial relations, the negotiations undertaken in relation to the adventure heroine narrative and character and the position taken by the author in relation to the representation of knowledge. These issues are all crucial in relation to travel writing by women, and the women, whose writing has been collected together in this anthology have made bold decisions in relation to them. |