Author: Mary C. Fuller
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496210298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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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. Travel and Travail conclusively refutes the notion of female travel in the early modern era as "an absent presence." The first part of the volume offers analyses of female travelers (often recently widowed or accompanied by their husbands), the practicalities of female travel, and how women were thought to experience foreign places. The second part turns to literature, including discussions of roving women in Shakespeare, Margaret Cavendish, and Thomas Heywood. Whether historical actors or fictional characters, women figured in the wider world of the global Renaissance, not simply in the hearth and home.
Author: Patricia Akhimie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781496210302
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Author: Shayne Aaron Legassie
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022644273X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger, these wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences in unprecedented numbers and transformed traditional conceptions of human mobility. Exploring this phenomenon, The Medieval Invention of Travel draws on an impressive array of sources to develop original readings of canonical figures such as Marco Polo, John Mandeville, and Petrarch, as well as a host of lesser-known travel writers. As Shayne Aaron Legassie demonstrates, the Middle Ages inherited a Greco-Roman model of heroic travel, which viewed the ideal journey as a triumph over temptation and bodily travail. Medieval travel writers revolutionized this ancient paradigm by incorporating practices of reading and writing into the ascetic regime of the heroic voyager, fashioning a bold new conception of travel that would endure into modern times. Engaging methods and insights from a range of disciplines, The Medieval Invention of Travel offers a comprehensive account of how medieval travel writers and their audiences reshaped the intellectual and material culture of Europe for centuries to come.
Author: Noel B. Salazar
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1785339362
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Grounded in scholarly analysis and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility. Both focusing specifically on how various societies and cultures imagine and value boundary-crossing mobilities “elsewhere” and drawing heavily on his own European lifeworld, the author examines momentous travels abroad in the context of education, work, and spiritual quests and the search for a better quality of life.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Author: Mike Pincombe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351877577
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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In recent years the twin themes of travel and translation have come to be regarded as particularly significant to the study of early modern culture and literature. Traditional notions of 'The Renaissance' have always emphasised the importance of the influence of continental, as well as classical, literature on English writers of the period; and over the past twenty years or so this emphasis has been deepened by the use of more complicated and sophisticated theories of literary and cultural intertextuality, as well as broadened to cover areas such as religious and political relations, trade and traffic, and the larger formations of colonialism and imperialism. The essays collected here address the full range of traditional and contemporary issues, providing new light on canonical authors from More to Shakespeare, and also directing critical attention to many unfamiliar texts which need to be better known for our fuller understanding of sixteenth-century English literature. This volume makes a very particular contribution to current thinking on Anglo-continental literary relations in the sixteenth century. Maintaining a breadth and balance of concerns and approaches, Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century represents the academic throughout Europe: essays are contributed by scholars working in Hungary, Greece, Italy, and France, as well as in the UK. Arthur Kinney's introduction to the collection provides an North American overview of what is perhaps a uniquely comprehensive index to contemporary European criticism and scholarship in the area of early modern travel and translation.
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Author: Thomas Zimmerman
Publisher: Cyberwit.Net
ISBN: 9789390601547
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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The chief characteristic of these poems is extreme simplicity of style united with profound emotion. The poems reveal impressive imagination, blended with strange and beautiful word-pictures. BIO Thomas Zimmerman teaches English, directs the Writing Center, and edits The Big Windows Review and The Huron River Review at Washtenaw Community College, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. He was nominated for an Association of Community College Trustees faculty member award in 2005 and received the Distinguished Humanities Educator Award from the Community College Humanities Association in 2012. Tom has been active in the small press since the late 1980s. Among his recent publications are the chapbook Conjugal Spaces: A Poem (Zetataurus Press, 2020) and the full-length collection Domestic Sonnets (Cyberwit.net, 2021). Tom's website: thomaszimmerman.wordpress.com
Author: Encyclopaedia Perthensis
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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