Travel and Travail (eBook, ePUB)

Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World
Redaktion: Akhimie, Patricia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in Travel and Travail reveal, however, early modern women did travel, often quite extensively, with no diminution of their moral fiber. Female travelers were also frequently represented on the English stage and in other creative works, both as a reproach to the ban on female travel and as a reflection of historical women's travel, whether intentional or not.Travel and Travail conclusively refutes the notion of female travel in the early modern era as "an absent presence." The first part of the volume offers analyses of female travelers (often recently widowed or accompanied by their husbands), the practicalities of female travel, and how women were thought to experience foreign places. The second part turns to literature, including discussions of roving women in Shakespeare, Margaret Cavendish, and Thomas Heywood. Whether historical actors or fictional characters, women figured in the wider world of the global Renaissance, not simply in the hearth and home.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496210296
• Artikelnr.: 54882469

Autorenporträt

Patricia Akhimie is an assistant professor in the English Department at Rutgers University, Newark. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World. Bernadette Andrea is a professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature and The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture.    

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations    
Acknowledgments    
Introduction: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World    
Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Andrea
Part 1. Early Modern Women Travelers: Global and Local Trajectories
1. Desdemona and Mrs. Keeling    
Richmond Barbour
2. A Stranger Bride: Mariam Khan and the East India Company    
Karen Robertson
3. Sailing to India: Women, Travel, and Crisis in the Seventeenth Century  
 
Amrita Sen
4. Teresa Sampsonia Sherley: Amazon, Traveler, and Consort    
Carmen Nocentelli
5. The Global Travels of Teresa Sampsonia Sherley’s Carmelite Relic    
Bernadette Andrea
6. Gender and Travel Discourse: Richard Lassels’s “The Voyage of the Lady
Catherine Whetenall from Brussells into Italy” (1650)    
Patricia Akhimie
7. Advance and Retreat: Reading English Colonial Choreographies of
Pocahontas    
Elisa Oh
8. Lady Anne Clifford’s Way and Aristocratic Women’s Travel    
Laura Williamson Ambrose
Part 2. Early Modern Women and the Globe: Gendered Travel on the English
Stage
9. Mapping Women: Place Names and a Woman’s Place    
Laura Aydelotte
10. Eroticizing Women’s Travel: Desdemona and the Desire for Adventure in
Othello    
Stephanie Chamberlain
11. Desdemona’s Divided Duty: Gender and Courtesy in Othello    
Michael Slater
12. From Adventure to Danger in the Travels of Desdemona and Miranda    
Eder Jaramillo
13. Marian Mobility, Black Madonnas, and the Cleopatra Complex    
Ruben Espinosa    
14. Precarious Travail, Gender, and Narration in Shakespeare’s Pericles,
Prince of Tyre and Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World    
Dyani Johns Taff
15. Traveling Companions: Shakespeare’s As You Like It and the Book of
Ruth    
Suzanne Tartamella
16. English Women, Romance, and Global Travel in Thomas Heywood’s The Fair
Maid of the West, Part I    
Gaywyn Moore
Afterword: Looking for the Women in Early Modern Travel Writing    
Mary C. Fuller
Contributors    
Index