Objects of Liberty explores the prevalence of souvenirs in six British women’s travel accounts of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. Using a methodology informed by literary, gender, and material culture studies, it argues that women writers employed the souvenir to circulate political ideas and contribute to conversations about individual and national identity.
Objects of Liberty explores the prevalence of souvenirs in six British women’s travel accounts of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. Using a methodology informed by literary, gender, and material culture studies, it argues that women writers employed the souvenir to circulate political ideas and contribute to conversations about individual and national identity.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
PAMELA BUCK is associate professor of English at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. Her research focuses primarily on women's writing and material culture in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature.
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List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Helen Maria Williams' Sentimental Objects in Letters from France 2. Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Spectacle in An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution 3. Imperial Collecting in Catherine and Martha Wilmot's Travel Journals 4. Charlotte Eaton's Battlefield Relics in Narrative of a Residence in Belgium Conclusion: Refiguring the Revolution in Mary Shelley's Rambles in Germany and Italy Notes Bibliography Index
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Helen Maria Williams' Sentimental Objects in Letters from France 2. Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Spectacle in An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution 3. Imperial Collecting in Catherine and Martha Wilmot's Travel Journals 4. Charlotte Eaton's Battlefield Relics in Narrative of a Residence in Belgium Conclusion: Refiguring the Revolution in Mary Shelley's Rambles in Germany and Italy Notes Bibliography Index
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