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Author:

Horrocks, Ingrid, author.

Title:

Women wanderers and the writing of mobility, 1784-1814 / Ingrid Horrocks.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xi, 288 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Women travelers in literature.
Travel in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Great Britain.
Romanticism--Great Britain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-283) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : reluctant wanderers -- "Circling eye" to "houseless stranger" : the shifting landscape in the long poem -- The desolations of wandering : Charlotte Smith's Elegiac sonnets, 1784-1800 -- "The irresistible force of circumstances" : the poetics of wandering in Radcliffean gothic -- "Take, o world! Thy much indebted tear!" : Mary Wollstonecraft travels -- "No motive of choice" : Frances Burney and the wandering novel -- Coda : "He could afford to suffer" : losses and gains.

Summary:

A history of the writing of mobility in the Romantic period, through the work of major women writers.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 115

ISBN:

1107182239
9781107182233

OCLC:

(OCoLC)965350295

Locations:

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