Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… la Fédération, le 14 juillet 1790’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 4997, 1792. Abstract This entry deals with female travel narratives to the Continent, with a focus on those written during the revolutionary decade (1789-1800). It aims to … in the education of eighteenth-century women. 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 … by women), they nonetheless made an apt use of this ‘frontier discourse’ 6 to reach out in the public sphere. Travel literature indeed enjoyed a reputation and a popularity as a ‘descriptive knowledge genre’ (Ferris 452) that required …
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