Feminism and the Politics of Travel after the Enlightenment

English

Series: Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture, 1650–1850 Ser.

ISBN: 1611484294

EAN: 9781611484298

Category: Travel / Essays & Travelogues

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Release Date: 01/12/2012

Age Range: UP-null

Synopsis: Taking the Enlightenment and the feminist tradition to which it gave rise as its historical and philosophical coordinates, Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment explores the coincidence of feminist vindications and travel in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the way travel’s utopian dimension and feminism’s utopian ideals have intermittently fed off each other in productive ways. Travel’s gender politics is analyzed in the works of J.-J. Rousseau, Mary Wollstonecraft, Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis, Germaine de Staël, Frances Burney, Flora Tristan, Suzanne Voilquin, Gustave Flaubert George Sand, Robyn Davidson, and Sara Wheeler.

Feminism and the Politics of Travel after the Enlightenment

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - EPUB

Pages: 234