Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… 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 enabled female authors to tackle political issues, a field … The revolutionary decade intensified the politicisation of sociability in travel narratives as the formation of the self through culture, amusements and public events was increasingly seen as inextricably tied up with the nature and form … the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany (London: A. Strahan, 1789), p. 32. Nowhere is this process of self-definition in relation to social encounters and sociability more conspicuous (yet ambiguous) than in Mary …
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