Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World Contributor(s): Akhimie, Patricia (Editor), Andrea, Bernadette (Editor), Fuller, Mary C. (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 1496202260 ISBN-13: 9781496202260 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) - History | Europe - Great Britain - Stuart Era (1603-1714) - Social Science | Women's Studies |
Dewey: 820.932 |
LCCN: 2018027855 |
Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies |
Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6" W x 9" (1.24 lbs) 384 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in Travel and Travail reveal, however, early modern women did travel, often quite extensively, with no diminution of their moral fiber. Female travelers were also frequently represented on the English stage and in other creative works, both as a reproach to the ban on female travel and as a reflection of historical women's travel, whether intentional or not. |