Bluestockings and Travel Accounts: Reading, Writing and Collecting

by Nataliia Voloshkova

Overview

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 This Element builds upon the body of evidence provided by their published and unpublished diaries, correspondence and private library catalogues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108720724
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/25/2021
Series:	Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
Pages:	75
Product dimensions:	4.92(w) x 7.09(h) x 0.20(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Bluestockings, Travellers and Conversation; 3. Reading Travelogues; 4. Writing Travel Accounts; 5. Collecting Travel Books.