{"product_id":"travel-and-travail-9781496202260","title":"Travel and Travail","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePopular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in \u003cem\u003eTravel and Travail\u003c\/em\u003e reveal, however, early modern women did travel, and often quite extensively, with no diminution of their moral fibre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This edited collection is a meaningful contribution to the literature concerning the movement and travel of women during the Age of Exploration. Up until this point, the literature has either fully ignored the movement of these women or marginally presented the travels of elite women post-eighteenth century. Therefore, \u003ci\u003eTravel and Travail \u003c\/i\u003eserves as a corrective, describing the very literal and very common travels of women during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.\"—Dyese Elliott-Newton, \u003ci\u003eComitatus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTravel and Travail\u003c\/i\u003e produces important feminist knowledge and fills a lacuna in our understanding of the expanding global enterprise and women's place in it. It is marvelously written, a pleasure to read.\"—Mira'Assaf Kafantaris, \u003ci\u003eEarly Modern Women: An Interdisciplinay Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTravel and Travail\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of essays on early modern women's travel, is a timely and much-needed contribution to the scholarship of women's travel writing and women's mobility. The sixteen essays in this book collectively offer fresh insights into historical women travellers in the early modern world as well as literary representations of female travel on the English stage.\"—Yoojung Choi, \u003ci\u003eReview of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These stories place women in the context of larger issues surrounding the early modern world—beyond their local cities and, what was considered at the time, domestic spaces.\"—Arazoo Ferozan, \u003ci\u003eRenaissance and Reformation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTravel and Travail\u003c\/i\u003e is a celebration of interdisciplinary research. . . . This work challenges historians, digital humanity scholars, and collegiate learners to look anew at their own understandings of women travelers in the early modern world.\"—Gina G. Bennett, \u003ci\u003eTerrae Incognitae\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTravel and Travail\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling statement of a field in its emergence and will become a touchstone in scholarship on early modern women, early modern travel and colonialism, and early modern drama.\"—Gavin Hollis, \u003ci\u003eEarly Theater\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Packed with fascinating case studies, this collection reveals overlooked evidence of early modern women traveling between England, Persia, India, and the Americas, alongside illuminating accounts of how dramatists characterized traveling women. Essential reading for students and scholars of travel writing.”—Gerald MacLean, professor emeritus of English literature, University of Exeter\u003cbr\u003e“By focusing on women, this book compellingly changes the way scholars will understand the nature and scope of travel in the early modern period. While offering impressive rereadings of fictional representations of women travelers, \u003ci\u003eTravel and Travail\u003c\/i\u003e is also rich in archival discoveries, unearthing surprising accounts of seventeenth-century women who traveled within and far beyond the British Isles. Akhimie and Andrea have orchestrated an original and important contribution to Early Modern studies.”—Jean E. Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e“An important collection for the field of travel writing and early modern women’s and gender studies more broadly. The collection seeks to establish a canon of women travelers in the period, and through the reoccurrence of certain key figures across the volume, both historical and fictional, it goes a long way towards doing so.”—Julia Schleck, associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World    \u003cbr\u003e Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Andrea\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Early Modern Women Travelers: Global and Local Trajectories\u003cbr\u003e 1. Desdemona and Mrs. Keeling    \u003cbr\u003e Richmond Barbour\u003cbr\u003e 2. A Stranger Bride: Mariam Khan and the East India Company    \u003cbr\u003e Karen Robertson\u003cbr\u003e 3. Sailing to India: Women, Travel, and Crisis in the Seventeenth Century    \u003cbr\u003e Amrita Sen\u003cbr\u003e 4. Teresa Sampsonia Sherley: Amazon, Traveler, and Consort    \u003cbr\u003e Carmen Nocentelli\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Global Travels of Teresa Sampsonia Sherley’s Carmelite Relic    \u003cbr\u003e Bernadette Andrea\u003cbr\u003e 6. Gender and Travel Discourse: Richard Lassels’s “The Voyage of the Lady Catherine Whetenall from Brussells into Italy” (1650)    \u003cbr\u003e Patricia Akhimie\u003cbr\u003e 7. Advance and Retreat: Reading English Colonial Choreographies of Pocahontas    \u003cbr\u003e Elisa Oh\u003cbr\u003e 8. Lady Anne Clifford’s Way and Aristocratic Women’s Travel    \u003cbr\u003e Laura Williamson Ambrose\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Early Modern Women and the Globe: Gendered Travel on the English Stage\u003cbr\u003e 9. Mapping Women: Place Names and a Woman’s Place    \u003cbr\u003e Laura Aydelotte\u003cbr\u003e 10. Eroticizing Women’s Travel: Desdemona and the Desire for Adventure in Othello    \u003cbr\u003e Stephanie Chamberlain\u003cbr\u003e 11. Desdemona’s Divided Duty: Gender and Courtesy in Othello    \u003cbr\u003e Michael Slater\u003cbr\u003e 12. From Adventure to Danger in the Travels of Desdemona and Miranda    \u003cbr\u003e Eder Jaramillo\u003cbr\u003e 13. Marian Mobility, Black Madonnas, and the Cleopatra Complex    \u003cbr\u003e Ruben Espinosa    \u003cbr\u003e 14. Precarious Travail, Gender, and Narration in Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre and Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World    \u003cbr\u003e Dyani Johns Taff\u003cbr\u003e 15. Traveling Companions: Shakespeare’s As You Like It and the Book of Ruth    \u003cbr\u003e Suzanne Tartamella\u003cbr\u003e 16. English Women, Romance, and Global Travel in Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West, Part I    \u003cbr\u003e Gaywyn Moore\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Looking for the Women in Early Modern Travel Writing    \u003cbr\u003e Mary C. Fuller\u003cbr\u003e Contributors    \u003cbr\u003e Index    ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409217429847,"sku":"9781496202260","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496202260.jpg?v=1730505989","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/travel-and-travail-9781496202260","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}