Penelope Voyages - Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition

Looking at travel writing by British women from the seventeenth century on, Karen R. Lawrence asks an intriguing question: What happens when, instead of waiting patiently for Odysseus, Penelope voyages and records her journey...

Summary

Looking at travel writing by British women from the seventeenth century on, Karen R. Lawrence asks an intriguing question: What happens when, instead of waiting patiently for Odysseus, Penelope voyages and records her journey...

Product details

• Authors: Karen Lawrence, Karen Lawrence Lawrence, Karen R. Lawrence
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.1994
• EAN: 9780801499135
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-9913-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Reading Women Writing; Reading Women Writing
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies