Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… collective identities were embedded in an intricate pattern of topics related to geography, climate, customs, fashion, taste and relation. In the eighteenth century, subjectivity was ‘conceived primarily as a social idiom, a powerful fusion of shared cultural vernacular and individual tastes’. 8 Female subjectivity was thus prone to be influenced by travelling experiences and social encounters: ‘Travel …
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