Bluestockings and Travel Accounts - Reading, Writing and Collecting

This Element proposes to relate the eighteenth-century world of travel and travel writing with the bluestocking salon. It locates eminent British travellers and explorers in the female-presided intellectual space and examines their multifaceted interaction with the bluestockings between 1760 and 1799.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Bluestockings, Travellers and Conversation; 3. Reading Travelogues; 4. Writing Travel Accounts; 5. Collecting Travel Books.

Summary

This Element proposes to relate the eighteenth-century world of travel and travel writing with the bluestocking salon. It locates eminent British travellers and explorers in the female-presided intellectual space and examines their multifaceted interaction with the bluestockings between 1760 and 1799.

Product details

• Authors: Nataliia Voloshkova
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781108720724
• ISBN: 978-1-108-72072-4
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Travel writing, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literature: history and criticism