Yaël Schlick

Feminism and the Politics of Travel after the Enlightenment (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216356585
• Artikelnr.: 75142141

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Travel, Knowledge, Utopia
Part I: Travel and Domesticity
Chapter 1: The Sex of Travel: Sexual Contract and Enlightenment Travel in
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft
Chapter 2: Travel and Talent: The Culture of Domesticity in
Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis, Germaine de Staël and Frances Burney
Part II: Travel and New Communities
Chapter 3: Travelling Theories and Political Formation: The Feminist
Peregrinations of Flora Tristan
Chapter 4: Travel as Praxis: Suzanne Voilquin and the Saint-Simonian 'Call
to the Woman' Part III: Travel and History
Chapter 5: Spatial Literacy and the Female Traveller: The Politics of
Map-Reading in Gustave Flaubert and George Sand
Epilogue: Moving Forward
Bibliography
About the Author