Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… with and reception of foreignness. In a skilful inversion of values, Astell ascribes what were perceived as feminine vices (‘envy’, ‘malice’, ‘cruel back-biting’, ‘spiteful detraction’) to the masculine sphere – the coffeehouse – and … her deep-seated belief in enlightened progress would make her more than often quite dogmatic: ‘The most essential service, I presume, that authors could render to society, would be to promote inquiry and discussion, instead of making … ideology, and financial situation to understand the issues they addressed in their travel narratives and the stylistic devices and strategies used. As underlined by Carl Thomson, ‘cultural constraints exercised a powerful shaping influence on …
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