Feminism and the Politics of Travel after the Enlightenment

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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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 travel as a “technology of gender.” It also investigates the way travel’s utopian dimension and feminism’s utopian ideals have intermittently fed off each other in productive ways. With broad historical and theoretical understanding, Yaël Schlick analyzes the intersections of travel and feminism in writings published during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a period of intense feminist vindication during which women’s very presence in the public sphere, their access to education, and their political participation were contentious issues. Schlick examines the gendering of travel and its political implications in Rousseau’s Emile, and in works by Mary Wollstonecraft, Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis, Frances Burney, Germaine de Staël, Suzanne Voilquin, Flora Tristan, Gustave Flaubert, and George Sand, arguing that travel is instrumental in furthering diverse feminist agendas. The epilogue alerts us to the continuation of the utopian strain of the voyage and its link to feminism in modern and contemporary travelogues by writers like Mary Kingsley, Robyn Davidson and Sara Wheeler.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-03-12
Mått153 x 231 x 17 mm
Vikt349 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieTransits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
Antal sidor234
FörlagAssociated University Presses
ISBN9781611485684

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Yaël Schlick is associate adjunct professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario where she teaches courses on travel writing, autobiography, and modern literature. She has published articles on nineteenth-century French and British travel writing and colonial literature, and on 20th century autobiographical narratives. She has recently co-edited a volume of essays on the figure of the coquette with Shelley King. Her translation and critical edition of Victor Segalen’s Essay on Exoticism was published in 2002.

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Travel, Knowledge, UtopiaPart I: Travel and DomesticityChapter 1: The Sex of Travel: Sexual Contract and Enlightenment Travel in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary WollstonecraftChapter 2: Travel and Talent: The Culture of Domesticity in Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis, Germaine de Staël and Frances BurneyPart II: Travel and New CommunitiesChapter 3: Travelling Theories and Political Formation: The Feminist Peregrinations of Flora TristanChapter 4: Travel as Praxis: Suzanne Voilquin and the Saint-Simonian ‘Call to the Woman’ Part III: Travel and HistoryChapter 5: Spatial Literacy and the Female Traveller: The Politics of Map-Reading in Gustave Flaubert and George SandEpilogue: Moving Forward BibliographyAbout the Author

Schlick (Queen's Univ., Ontario, Canada) presents an intriguing examination of how notions of gender and perceptions of the value of travel interrelate in writing from the late 18th through the 19th centuries. In a somewhat unexpected move, the author treats selections from traditional, nonfiction travel writing as well as literary fiction with travel as a theme. Readers will find Schlick's exploration theoretically well grounded....Most broadly useful are the introduction ("Travel, Knowledge, Utopia"), chapter 1 ("The Sex of Travel: Sexual Contract and Enlightenment Travel in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft"), and the epilogue ("Moving Forward"). These sections of the book provide a solid critical framework for advanced scholars interested in the historical notions of travel as a public, political, tough male activity as opposed to home as a private, domestic, soft female activity. . . .Summing Up: Recommended.