Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… form of communal sociability later to be echoed in Adam Smith’s concept of ‘harmony and correspondence’ of minds and sentiments through free communication and openness. 3 A similar approach to cultural and social discovery is advocated by … been supposed permanent, though only rendered so by the permanency of ignorance.’ 4 3 . Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Basil: Tourneisen, 1793), p. 67. 4 . Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, … for travel writing so as ‘to claim a nationally representative function’, 13 hence discarding the traditional codes of sentiment, singularity and eccentricity. Loyalist travelogues such as those of Rachel Charlotte Biggs ( A Residence in …
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