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Author:

Steadman, Jennifer Bernhardt, 1971-

Title:

Traveling economies : American women's travel writing / Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

viii, 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Women travelers--United States--History--19th century.
Women travelers--United States--Social conditions--19th century.
Women authors, American--19th century--Political and social views.
Women travelers in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Travel in literature.

Notes:

"50, 1957-2007, Ohio State", on cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-197) and index.

Contents:

Ragged-edge travelers Amy Morris Bradley and Nancy Prince evaluate the economies of travel -- Scolding the nation: the political travel writing of Anne Royall -- Traveling uplift: Mary Ann Shadd Cary creates and connects Black communities -- A "singular spectacle of a female": Frances Wright's traveling figure -- To the summit of equality: a feminist traveler, bloomers, and the antebellum feminist press.

ISBN:

0814291430 (cd-rom)
9780814291436 (cd-rom)
081421066X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814210666 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007013298

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)