Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… – sociable practices, culture, values – was a key topic for understanding the Continental other (its character, manners and mores) but also a rhetorical mode of writing one’s self in relation to the other. Furthermore, sociability … epistolary style devoid of English prejudices that could offer ‘a more true and accurate account of the customs and manners of the several nations, with whom this lady conversed’. 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. …
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