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Bluestockings and Travel Accounts

Reading, Writing and Collecting

Nataliia Voloshkova author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:25th Mar '21

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The Element links the world of exploration, travel and travel writing with the bluestocking salon in eighteenth-century Britain.

This Element proposes to relate the eighteenth-century world of travel and travel writing with the bluestocking salon. It locates eminent British travellers and explorers in the female-presided intellectual space and examines their multifaceted interaction with the bluestockings between 1760 and 1799.This Element proposes to relate the eighteenth-century world of travel and travel writing with the bluestocking salon. It locates eminent British travellers and explorers in the female-presided intellectual space and examines their multifaceted interaction with the bluestockings between 1760 and 1799. The study shows how the bluestockings acquired knowledge of the world through reading, discussing, writing and collecting travel accounts. It explores the 'social life' of manuscript and printed travel texts in the circle, their popularity and impact on the bluestockings. This Element builds upon the body of evidence provided by their published and unpublished diaries, correspondence and private library catalogues.

ISBN: 9781108720724

Dimensions: 180mm x 125mm x 5mm

Weight: 110g

75 pages