Expanding the domestic sphere
Mothers who travelled in the eighteenth century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15086458 |
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| Authors | Elizabeth Zold (Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 324-339 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Travel Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-5145 • E-ISSN: 1755-7550 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13645145.2015.1108723 |
| OpenAlex | W2250931888 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Travel and motherhood, as they relate to eighteenth-century English values, appear incompatible. In the latter half of the eighteenth century, educational tracts, sermons and conduct manuals constructed English virtues and morals as dependent upon the stability of the domestic realm and motherhood. Maternal figures represented stasis, and mothers who travelled could be accused of moral dubiousness or even maternal neglect or abandonment. However, this article argues that there are women travellers who used their status as mothers to justify the publication of their travels. Focusing specifically on the narratives of Mary Ann Parker [1795. A Voyage Round the World, in the Gorgon Man of War. London: John Nichols] and Lady Elizabeth Craven [1789. A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson], who each left their children at home to travel abroad, this essay examines how these mothers, using the rhetoric of sensibility and the language of nationalism, expanded the limits of the domestic sphere
Archaeology · Art · Literature · Narrative · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Realm · Rhetoric · Sensibility · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Philosophy · Travel Writing and Literature
| Highly cited | No |
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