Women and Their Worlds - The Perspectives of Early Modern European Travellers

This volume, the first of its kind, investigates the representation of women in the travel accounts of European travellers from the Age of Exploration until the Grand Tour across different cultural traditions, both European and non-European. It brings together, in a new perspective, travel writing, women s history, and gender studies, offering a systematic and comparative approach to a subject that has not yet received the scholarly attention it deserves.

List of contents

1. Gender "Otherness" in Travel Writing: The Perspective of European Travelers - Helena Sanson and Malgorzata Trzeciak-Cygan .- 2. Italian Travelers and Female Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe - Eleonora Belligni .- 3. Bona Sforza and Anna Jagiellon in the Eyes of Italian Ambassadors, Travelers, and Polish Nobles - Olga M. Hajduk .- 4. Women in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through Travelers' Eyes: Seventeenth-century British and Italian Perspectives - Malgorzata Trzeciak-Cygan .- 5. The Most "Agreeable Women in Europe"? British Travelers and Spanish Women, 1750-1809 - Richard Ansell and Rosemary Sweet .- 6. Women, Language, Education in Italy's Long Eighteenth Century: The Views of French and English Travelers - Helena Sanson .- 7. Walking on the Wild Side: Indigenous Women in Sixteenth-century Travel Accounts of Brazil - Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá .- 8. Portrayals of Women and Linguistic Stability in Two New World Travel Narratives - Caroline Egan .- 10. Images of Women in the State of India in European Travel Accounts (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries) - Joana Fraga .- 11. The Culture and Status of Early Modern Japanese Women, According to Luis Frois - Mihoko Suzuki .- 12. Chinese Women in European Travelers' Descriptions - Maria Rosa Gianninoto.

Product details

• Assisted by: Helena Sanson (Editor), Trzeciak-Cygan (Editor), Malgorzata Trzeciak-Cygan (Editor), Małgorzata Trzeciak-Cygan (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 11.09.2025
• EAN: 9783031886867
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3188686-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Illustrations: Approx. 280 p. 10 illus. in color.
• Series: New Transculturalisms, 1400-1800; New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Renaissance, Europäische Geschichte, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Cultural History, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Travel writing, History of Early Modern Europe, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Women's History / History of Gender, ca. 1500 bis zur Gegenwart, travel literature, transcultural history