Political Affairs of the Heart

Female Travel Writers, the Sentimental Travelogue, and Revolution, 1775-1800

Linda Van Netten Blimke (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2022
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-405-8 (ISBN)

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Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteenth-century Britain, and posits its centrality to women’s engagement with national and gender politics. This study examines four travel narratives written by women between 1774 and 1795, convincingly arguing that they effectively deploy the discourse of sensibility to engage with debates around Britain’s national identity during the French and American Revolutions. Van Netten Blimke contends that Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey (1768)—which first introduced sentimental discourse to the travelogue—facilitated women’s gradual inclusion into this previously male-dominated genre, effectively paving the way for women to influence the country’s sociopolitical transformation. These four previously understudied works successfully combine eyewitness authority with the language of sensibility to mount impassioned interventions in their nation’s perception and practice of revolutionary politics, at a time when its national identity was most in flux.

LINDA VAN NETTEN BLIMKE is an associate professor of English at Concordia University of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, where she teaches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. She is the coeditor of Crossing Canada, 1907: Hope Hook’s Diary.

Introduction: Critical Contexts: Eighteenth-Century Women’s Travel Writing

Part One: Mobile Feelings: Mapping the Sentimental Traveler

1 “Altogether of a Different Cast”: The Development of the Sentimental Traveler

Part Two: Divided Sympathies: Female Sentimental Travel Writers and the American Revolution

2 “I Am Sure You Will Share My Feelings”: Janet Schaw’s Journal of a Lady of Quality, Imperial Desire, and the American Revolution

3 The Ties That Bind: Sentimentalizing Colonialism in A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland

Part Three: Sensibility in Distress: Female Sentimental Travel Writers and the French Revolution

4 Revitalizing Sensibility: Mary Morgan’s Defense of Emotional Engagement in A Tour to Milford Haven

5 “A Renovation of Existence”: Helen Maria Williams’s A Tour in Switzerland and the Renewal of Political Vision

Epilogue: “An Affair of the Heart”

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2022
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	4 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-68448-405-7 / 1684484057
ISBN-13	978-1-68448-405-8 / 9781684484058
Zustand	Neuware