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Travel and travail : Early Modern women, English drama, and the wider world / edited and with an introduction by Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Andrea.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Early modern cultural studies (Lincoln, Neb.)Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781496210296
  • 1496210298
  • 9781496210319
  • 149621031X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Travel and travail.DDC classification:
  • 820.9/32082 23
LOC classification:
  • PR678.W6 T73 2019
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Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World; Part 1. Early Modern Women Travelers: Global and Local Trajectories; 1. Desdemona and Mrs. Keeling; 2. A Stranger Bride: Mariam Khan and the East India Company; 3. Sailing to India: Women, Travel, and Crisis in the Seventeenth Century; 4. Teresa Sampsonia Sherley: Amazon, Traveler, and Consort; 5. The Global Travels of Teresa Sampsonia Sherley's Carmelite Relic
6. Gender and Travel Discourse: Richard Lassels's "The Voyage of the Lady Catherine Whetenall from Brussells into Italy" (1650)7. Advance and Retreat: Reading English Colonial Choreographies of Pocahontas; 8. Lady Anne Clifford's Way and Aristocratic Women's Travel; Part 2. Early Modern Women and the Globe: Gendered Travel on the English Stage; 9. Mapping Women: Place Names and a Woman's Place; 10. Eroticizing Women's Travel: Desdemona and the Desire for Adventure in Othello; 11. Desdemona's Divided Duty: Gender and Courtesy in Othello
12. From Adventure to Danger in the Travels of Desdemona and Miranda13. Marian Mobility, Black Madonnas, and the Cleopatra Complex; 14. Precarious Travail, Gender, and Narration in Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World; 15. Traveling Companions: Shakespeare's As You Like It and the Book of Ruth; 16. English Women, Romance, and Global Travel in Thomas Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West, Part I; Afterword: Looking for the Women in Early Modern Travel Writing; Contributors; Index
Summary: "Travel and Travail offers the reader a history of women's travel in the Early Modern period"-- Provided by publisher
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"Travel and Travail offers the reader a history of women's travel in the Early Modern period"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World; Part 1. Early Modern Women Travelers: Global and Local Trajectories; 1. Desdemona and Mrs. Keeling; 2. A Stranger Bride: Mariam Khan and the East India Company; 3. Sailing to India: Women, Travel, and Crisis in the Seventeenth Century; 4. Teresa Sampsonia Sherley: Amazon, Traveler, and Consort; 5. The Global Travels of Teresa Sampsonia Sherley's Carmelite Relic

6. Gender and Travel Discourse: Richard Lassels's "The Voyage of the Lady Catherine Whetenall from Brussells into Italy" (1650)7. Advance and Retreat: Reading English Colonial Choreographies of Pocahontas; 8. Lady Anne Clifford's Way and Aristocratic Women's Travel; Part 2. Early Modern Women and the Globe: Gendered Travel on the English Stage; 9. Mapping Women: Place Names and a Woman's Place; 10. Eroticizing Women's Travel: Desdemona and the Desire for Adventure in Othello; 11. Desdemona's Divided Duty: Gender and Courtesy in Othello

12. From Adventure to Danger in the Travels of Desdemona and Miranda13. Marian Mobility, Black Madonnas, and the Cleopatra Complex; 14. Precarious Travail, Gender, and Narration in Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World; 15. Traveling Companions: Shakespeare's As You Like It and the Book of Ruth; 16. English Women, Romance, and Global Travel in Thomas Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West, Part I; Afterword: Looking for the Women in Early Modern Travel Writing; Contributors; Index

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