Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… 1 Sociability is thus perceived not simply as a topic of interest (‘customs and manners’) but also as a means (‘conversation’) of acquiring a more unbiased knowledge of the countries women visited. Lady Montagu, for instance, … to a recalibration not simply of the genre, but also of the narration of national character and sociable culture. If the conversational mode was still harnessed by travellers during the revolutionary decade (and more specifically in the …
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