Traveling economies
Subtitle: American women's travel writing
By: Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814210666; 9780814291436
Subjects: Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Women travelers -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women travelers -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Women authors, American -- 19th century -- Political and social views; Women travelers in literature; Feminism in literature; Travel in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ragged-edge travelers Amy Morris Bradley and Nancy Prince evaluate the economies of travel; title: Scolding the nation: the political travel writing of Anne Royall; title: Traveling uplift: Mary Ann Shadd Cary creates and connects Black communities; title: A "singular spectacle of a female": Frances Wright's traveling figure; title: To the summit of equality: a feminist traveler, bloomers, and the antebellum feminist press.