Traveling Economies
Subtitle: American Women's Travel Writing
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: September 22, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780814210666
Subjects: Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Sociology; American - General; Feminist; Social Science / Women's Studies; Women's Studies - General; 19th century; American prose literature; History and criticism; Travelers' writings, American; Women Authors
Description: "The black and white women travel writers whom Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman investigates in Travelling Economies astonish modern readers with their daring, stamina, and courage. Steadman's interdisciplinary work with archives, newspapers, memoirs, and letters and her close readings of the resulting evidence recover these important women's travels and writing and invite us to rethink where and how went and what they wrote in antebellum America."--BOOK JACKET.