Writing home
Subtitle: American women abroad, 1830-1920
By: Mary Suzanne Schriber.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Charlottesville, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Americans -- Foreign countries -- Historiography; Women travelers -- United States; Travel writing -- History
Description: In Writing Home, Mary Suzanne Schriber offers the first comprehensive analysis of the large body of U.S. women's travel literature written between the pre-Civil War years and World War I.

Examining almost a century's worth of published book-length accounts, ranging from the travel diaries of ordinary women to the narratives of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Edith Wharton, Schriber argues persuasively for the importance of gender considerations in the reading of all travel texts.

She discusses the differences between men's and women's constructions, in writing, of their experiences abroad - differences that extend beyond more observations to the way each gender is treated in foreign cultures, responds to them, and seizes the occasion of travel and writing to do cultural work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-245) and index.