Women and the politics of travel, 1870-1914
By: Monica Anderson.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism.; Women travelers -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism.; English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; English prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; British -- Foreign countries -- History -- 19th century.; British -- Foreign countries -- History -- 20th century.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain.; Women and literature -- Great Britain.; Sex role in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: All red routes : text, performance, and empire; title: Line of sight : narration and the spectator in Isabella Bird's The golden Chersonese; title: Role-play and Florence Dixie's In the land of misfortune; title: Romance, reality, and letter writing in Kate Marsden's On sledge and horseback to outcase Siberian lepers; title: "In the choice of their dress" : self-representation and the nineteenth-century woman traveler.