Secret journeys : the trope of women's travel in American literature / Marilyn C. Wesley.

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Wesley, Marilyn C

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TextSeries: SUNY series in feminist criticism and theoryPublication details: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 167 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0585063915
9780585063911

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Secret journeys.DDC classification:

810.9/355 21

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PS169.T74 W47 1999eb

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17.87
17.93
18.06
7,26
HR 1704

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Contents:

Preface -- Introduction the secret journey: The trope of women's travel in American literature -- Part I. The contravention of values ; Chapter 1. The not unfeared, half-welcome guest: The woman traveler in John Greenleaf Whittier's Snow-Bound -- Part II. Alternative journey ; Chapter 2. Moving targets: The travel text in a narrative of the captivity and restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson ; Chapter 3. "The perilous journey through the human house": The gothic journey in Willa Cather's The Professor's house and Edith Wharton's Summer ; Chapter 4. A woman's place: The politics of space in Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- Part III. Travel as social reconstruction ; Chapter 5. The genteel picara: The ethical imperative in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs ; Chapter 6. Sisters of the road: Transience as theme and form in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping -- Part IV. Transformative journeys ; Chapter 7. The developmental journey: Narrative, psychological, and social transformation in Eurdora Welty's Short Fiction ; Chapter 8. The postmodern journey: Elizabeth Bishop's Trope of Travel ; Conclusion Oprah's journey: Reading the constructive narrative -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-164) and index.

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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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