Adickes, Sandra
The Social Quest

The Expanded Vision of Four Women Travelers in the Era of the French Revolution.

This study focuses on the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Helen Maria Williams, Ann Radcliffe, and Mary Berry. The writing each woman produced as a result of her quest differed substantially in style and content from her previous work. In the documentations of their travels during this turbulent period, these women functioned as early sociologists, political scientists, and historians, in effect creating a new genre that delivered them from the limitations of women's writing in the 18th century and expanded the choices of later women writers. 158 Seiten, gebunden (American University Studies. Series IX: History; Vol. 92/Peter Lang Verlag 1991) Mängelexemplar/near mint