In the last days of the Scandinavian journey that would become the basis of her great post-Revolutionary travel book, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote, 'I am weary of travelling - yet seem to have no home - no resting place to look to - I am strangely cast off'. From this starting point, Ingrid Horrocks reveals the significance of representations of women wanderers in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, particularly in the work of women writers. She follows gendered, frequently reluctant wanderers beyond travel narratives into poetry, gothic romances, and sentimental novels, and places them within a long history of uses of the more traditional literary figure of the male wanderer. Drawing out the relationship between mobility and affect, and illuminating textual forms of wandering, Horrocks shows how paying attention to the figure of the woman wanderer sheds new light on women and travel, and alters assumptions about mobility's connection with freedom.
| ISBN: | 9781316633380 |
| Publication date: | 11th July 2019 |
| Author: | Ingrid Horrocks |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 307 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Romanticism |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: general Gender studies: women and girls |