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1 online resource. |
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Transits: literature, thought & culture 1650-1850
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Critical Contexts: Eighteenth-Century Women's Travel Writing -- Part One: Mobile Feelings: Mapping the Sentimental Traveler -- Part Two: Divided Sympathies: Female Sentimental Travel Writers and the American Revolution -- Part Three: Sensibility in Distress: Female Sentimental Travel Writers and the French Revolution -- Epilogue: "An Affair of the Heart" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
| Summary |
Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteenth-century Britain, and posits its centrality to women's engagement with national and gender politics. This study examines four travel narratives written by women between 1774 and 1795, convincingly arguing that they effectively deploy the discourse of sensibility to engage with debates around Britain's national identity during the French and American Revolutions. Van Netten Blimke contends that Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey (1768)--which first introduced sentimental discourse to the travelogue--facilitated women's gradual inclusion into this previously male-dominated genre, effectively paving the way for women to influence the country's sociopolitical transformation. These four previously understudied works successfully combine eyewitness authority with the language of sensibility to mount impassioned interventions in their nation's perception and practice of revolutionary politics, at a time when its national identity was most in flux. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Travel writers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Travel writing -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Women -- Political activity -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General. |
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Travel writers |
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Travel writing |
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Women -- Political activity |
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Great Britain |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781684484058 1684484057 9781684484065 1684484065 (DLC) 2021044569 (OCoLC)1268983225 |
| ISBN |
9781684484096 (electronic bk.) |
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168448409X (electronic bk.) |
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9781684484072 (electronic bk.) |
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1684484073 (electronic bk.) |
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9781684484058 |
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1684484057 |
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9781684484065 |
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1684484065 |
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