Writing Home
In Writing Home, Mary Suzanne Schriber offers the first comprehensive analysis of the large body of U.S. women's travel literature written betwen the pre-Civil War years and World War I. Examining almost a century's worth of published book-length accounts, ranging from 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 a travel texts. She discusses the differences between men's and women's constructions, in writing, and their experiences abroad.
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Mary Suzanne Schriber, Distinguished Professor of English at Northern Illinois University, is the author of Gender and the Writer's Imagination and the editor of Telling Travels: Selected Writings of Nineteenth-Century American Women Abroad and Edith Wharton's A Motor-Flight through France.
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Introduction
1. Mapping the Territory: The Who, When, Where, and Why of Women's Travel
2. Literary Inroads: Genre, Gender, and Difference
3. Autobiographical Occasions: The Fashioning of Selves in the Texts of Abby Morrell, Sophia Hawthorne, and Martha Coston
4. Political Occasions: The Public Voices of Margaret Fuller, Mary Hannah Krout, Kate Field, Nellie Bly, and Lilian Leland
5. Cultural Occasions: Form and Genre in the Texts of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and Edith Wharton
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