A Voyage of Discovery”
Reimagining the Walking Woman through Nineteenth-Century Diaries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411968 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Trish Bredar (0000-0002-8165-7287, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 609-638 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s106015032100019x |
| OpenAlex | W4312850531 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article uses a corpus of manuscript diaries to illuminate the practices and meanings of everyday mobility that shaped the lives of nineteenth-century Englishwomen. The female pedestrian has typically been characterized by scholars as a marginal or transgressive figure whose movements are interpreted through comparison to a masculine peripatetic tradition. “A Voyage of Discovery” seeks to broaden our understanding of what it meant to move through the world as a woman in the nineteenth century. Drawing from the narrated experiences of a broad range of little-known diarists, this article outlines a paradigm of “everyday adventure” to describe walking's status as an unremarkable act that nevertheless creates the potential for event and variety. In so doing, it expands on feminist concepts of the everyday, elaborates on the under-theorized relationship between walking and the body, and reassesses the boundaries of socially acceptable mobility
Adventure · Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Everyday life · Literature · Pedestrian · Sociology · Transgressive · Variety (cybernetics · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Travel Writing and Literature
The Dialogic Imagination
Doing Time
Diary and Correspondence, 1798, 1799, 1800
Walking the Victorian Streets
Charles Dickens's Networks
A Voyage of Discovery”
The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Walking, Literature, and English Culture
Walking Women
The practice of everyday life
Mobility and the humanities
The Invisible Flâneuse. Women and the Literature of Modernity
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |