TY - BOOK ID - 85467834 TI - Women, writing, and travel in the eighteenth century PY - 2018 SN - 1108676758 1316104931 1108599923 1107088526 1107459338 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Travelers' writings, English KW - English travelers' writings KW - English literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Women authors KW - Great Britain KW - Intellectual life KW - English prose literature KW - British KW - Women authors, English KW - Voyages and travels KW - Travel writing KW - Literary form KW - History KW - Travel. KW - Travel KW - Authorship KW - Journeys KW - Travel books KW - Travels KW - Trips KW - Geography KW - Adventure and adventurers KW - Travelers KW - English women authors UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85467834 AB - The eighteenth century witnessed the publication of an unprecedented number of voyages and travels, genuine and fictional. Within a genre distinguished by its diversity, curiosity, and experimental impulses, Katrina O'Loughlin investigates not just how women in the eighteenth century experienced travel, but also how travel writing facilitated their participation in literary and political culture. She canvases a range of accounts by intrepid women, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters, Lady Craven's Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople, Eliza Justice's A Voyage to Russia, and Anna Maria Falconbridge's Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone. Moving from Ottoman courts to theatres of war, O'Loughlin shows how gender frames access to people and spaces outside Enlightenment and Romantic Britain, and how travel provides women with a powerful cultural form for re-imagining their place in the world. ER -