Title: The theme of "departure" in women's travel narratives, 1600-1900 : taking leave from oneself /
Authors: Makowiecka, Maria Hanna.
Publisher: E. Mellen Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Literature Women authors History and criticism.; Travel in literature.; Women travelers in literature.; Separation (Psychology) in literature.; Farewells in literature.
Contents: Introduction : points of departure -- Ch. 1. Departing from the familiar : writing the self into the New World in seventeenth-century England -- Ch. 2. Transcultural departures and coming to writing in eighteenth-century women's writing -- Ch. 3. A matter of fact departure : stepping out of his footprints -- Ch. 4. The eve of departure : maiden voyages -- Ch. 5. Conclusions on genre, gender and textual departure.