Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility, 1784-1814

Informationen zum Autor Ingrid Horrocks completed a doctorate at Princeton University, New Jersey, before taking up a job at Massey University, Wellington. She has been a Commonwealth Scholar and in 2009 she was awarded a prestigious Marsden Fast-Start Award by the Royal Society of New Zealand. She is the author of a travel book as well as of articles published in journals including Studies in Travel Writing, Studies in Romanticism, and English Literary History (ELH). She is also the editor of an edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's only travel book, co-editor of an edition of Charlotte Smith's poems, and the author of the pre-1840 chapter of A History of New Zealand Literature (2016). Klappentext A history of the writing of mobility in the Romantic period, through the work of major women writers. Zusammenfassung Ingrid Horrocks reveals the significance of representations of women wanderers in the Romantic period! particularly in the work of women writers. She explores works by Wollstonecraft! Burney! Radcliffe! and others! and in doing so shifts understandings of the history of mobility and social sympathy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: reluctant wanderers; 1. 'Circling eye' to 'houseless stranger': the shifting landscape of the long poem; 2. The desolations of wandering: Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets; 3. 'The irresistible force of circumstances': the poetics of wandering in Radcliffean Gothic; 4. 'Take, o world! thy much indebted tear!': Mary Wollstonecraft travels; 5. 'No motive of choice': Frances Burney and the wandering novel; Coda: 'He could afford to suffer': losses and gains.

Product details

• Authors: Ingrid Horrocks, Horrocks Ingrid
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781316633380
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63338-0
• No. of pages: 307
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Europe, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: general, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Indo-European languages, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, C 1700 To C 1800