Secret Journeys: The Trope of Women's Travel in American LiteratureSUNY Press, 1999 M01 1 - 167 páginas Travel is the root metaphor for Western progress, a fact particularly evident in a colonizing and immigrant nation like the United States. Despite changing historical circumstances from one American epoch to another, men have generally been associated with adventurous movement and women with domestic stasis, a bias that has obscured recognition of a significant trope: the woman traveler throughout American literature. 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. |
Contenido
The Not Unfeared HalfWelcome Guest The Woman Traveler in John Greenleaf Whittiers SnowBound | 3 |
Alternative Representations | 19 |
Moving Targets The Travel Text in A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs Mary Rowlandson | 21 |
The Perilous Journey through the Human House The Gothic Journey in Willa Gathers The Professors House and Edith Whartons Summer | 37 |
A Womans Place The Politics of Space in Harriet Jacobss Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | 53 |
Travel as Social Reconstruction | 65 |
The Genteel Picara The Ethical Imperative in Sarah Orne Jewetts The Country of the Pointed Firs | 67 |
Sisters of the Road Transience as Theme and Form in Marilynne Robinsons Housekeeping | 81 |
Transformative Journeys | 97 |
The Developmental Journey Narrative Psychological and Social Transformation in Eudora Weltys Short Fiction | 99 |
The Postmodern Journey Elizabeth Bishops Trope of Travel | 113 |
Orpahs Journey Reading the Constructive Narrative | 129 |
Notes | 139 |
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Secret Journeys: The Trope of Women's Travel in American Literature Marilyn C. Wesley Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
Secret Journeys: The Trope of Women's Travel in American Literature Marilyn C. Wesley Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
Secret Journeys: The Trope of Women's Travel in American Literature Marilyn C. Wesley Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |