Gender, Companionship, and Travel
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Gender, Companionship, and Travel

Discourses in Pre-modern and Modern Travel Literature

  1. 276 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Gender, Companionship, and Travel

Discourses in Pre-modern and Modern Travel Literature

About this book

Over the last couple of decades there has been a strong academic interest in how individuals interact with each other while en route. Yet, even if various studies have informed us about present-day realities of travel companionships, we know little about the influence of gender both on these realities, as well as on the discourse in which these are being narrated.

This book aims to establish an agenda for the study of companionship in travel writing by offering a collection of new essays which study texts that belong to the broad category of pre-modern and modern travel literature. Chapters explore the differences and similarities in the ways that women and men in the past chose to describe their experiences with, and/or their ideas about companionship, and specifically reveals the influence of gender norms, conventions, restrictions, and stereotypes.

This is the first book which looks at the long-term, interdisciplinary, and genuinely international history of gendered discourses on companionship in travel writing. It will be of interest to scholars and students from a wide variety of disciplines, including cultural and social history, as well as cultural, literary, gender, travel, and tourism studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. Notes on contributors
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Who is carrying the luggage? Gendered discourses on companionship in travel writing: an introduction
  11. 1. On the ship in Petronius’ Satyrica: gender roles on the move in the early Roman Empire
  12. 2. Meeting the holy men: Self-perception of the female traveller and interaction between men and women in the late antique Itinerarium Egeriae
  13. 3. “He proved to be an inseparable travel companion”: Emo of Wittewierum and his Rome journey in 1211–1212
  14. 4. Not for weaker vessels?! Travel and gender in the early modern low countries
  15. 5. The travels/travails of Mme de Sévigné: the companion(s) of an inveterate letter writer
  16. 6. Female passengers and female voices in early modern Dutch travelogues of leisure trips (1669–1748)*
  17. 7. Memsahibs’ travel writings: wifely virtues and female imperial historiography
  18. 8. Travelogues by two companions describing Rachel’s American odyssĂ©e mortelle 1855–1856
  19. 9. Companions and competitors: men and women travellers and travel writing in the mid-nineteenth-century French Pyrenees
  20. 10. Enamoured men – confident women: gender relations and the travel journal of Lilla von Bulyovszky (1833–1909)
  21. 11. An Italian in Scandinavia: Elisa Cappellis’s idealizations of the North
  22. 12. Goddess and Leader: conflict and companionship in Agnes Herbert’s hunting travelogues
  23. 13. “My luggage and my ladies were unloaded”: companionship in Cyriel Buysse’s De vroolijke tocht
  24. 14. Comrade Lisa: spousal labour and family branding in Colin and Lisa Ross’s travel media1
  25. 15. The not-so-solo traveller: Mary Pos, Dutch writer and journalist
  26. Index