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Title: Secret Journeys: The Trope of Women’s Travel in American Literature
Author: Marilyn C Wesley
ISBN: 9780791439968
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1998
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
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Publisher : Secret Journeys examines the subversive and constructive narrative of female journey from the seventeenth century to the present in such works as John Greenleaf Whittier’s Snowbound, Mary Rowlandson’s A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mary Rowlandson, Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs, Edith Wharton’s Summer, Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House, Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, Eudora Welty’s short fiction, and Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry. In recognizing the figure of the woman traveler, Wesley produces new readings of canonical texts that subvert social and political assumptions in texts by men and construct alternative arrangements in texts by women.
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