Over the last couple of decades there has been a strong academic interest in how individuals interact with each other while en route. Yet, even if various studies have informed us about present-day realities of travel companionships, we know little about the influence of gender both on these realities, as well as on the discourse in which these are being narrated.

This book aims to establish an agenda for the study of companionship in travel writing by offering a collection of new essays which study texts that belong to the broad category of pre-modern and modern travel literature. Chapters explore the differences and similarities in the ways that women and men in the past chose to describe their experiences with, and/or their ideas about companionship, and specifically reveals the influence of gender norms, conventions, restrictions, and stereotypes.

This is the first book which looks at the long-term, interdisciplinary, and genuinely international history of gendered discourses on companionship in travel writing. It will be of interest to scholars and students from a wide variety of disciplines, including cultural and social history, as well as cultural, literary, gender, travel, and tourism studies.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2018

ISBN

9780429017902

Edition

Topic

Personal Development

Subtopic

Travel

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Who is carrying the luggage? Gendered discourses on companionship in travel writing: an introduction
1. On the ship in Petronius’ Satyrica: gender roles on the move in the early Roman Empire
2. Meeting the holy men: Self-perception of the female traveller and interaction between men and women in the late antique Itinerarium Egeriae
3. “He proved to be an inseparable travel companion”: Emo of Wittewierum and his Rome journey in 1211–1212
4. Not for weaker vessels?! Travel and gender in the early modern low countries
5. The travels/travails of Mme de Sévigné: the companion(s) of an inveterate letter writer
6. Female passengers and female voices in early modern Dutch travelogues of leisure trips (1669–1748)*
7. Memsahibs’ travel writings: wifely virtues and female imperial historiography
8. Travelogues by two companions describing Rachel’s American odyssée mortelle 1855–1856
9. Companions and competitors: men and women travellers and travel writing in the mid-nineteenth-century French Pyrenees
10. Enamoured men – confident women: gender relations and the travel journal of Lilla von Bulyovszky (1833–1909)
11. An Italian in Scandinavia: Elisa Cappellis’s idealizations of the North
12. Goddess and Leader: conflict and companionship in Agnes Herbert’s hunting travelogues
13. “My luggage and my ladies were unloaded”: companionship in Cyriel Buysse’s De vroolijke tocht
14. Comrade Lisa: spousal labour and family branding in Colin and Lisa Ross’s travel media1
15. The not-so-solo traveller: Mary Pos, Dutch writer and journalist
Index