Voyages Of The Self
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Author |
: Barbara Novak |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2009-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195387919 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195387910 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Voyages of the Self by : Barbara Novak
A short, brilliantly researched treatise on what it means to be American, looking at America's paramount artists and writers, by acclaimed art historian Barbara Novak. Lavishly illustrated with color and black & white photos.
Author |
: William W. Harmon |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 40 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:16162653 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Voyage of Self by : William W. Harmon
Author |
: Roger D. Taylor |
Publisher |
: Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 201 |
Release |
: 2012-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780955803550 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0955803551 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Voyages of a Simple Sailor by : Roger D. Taylor
This book is a distillation of over 50 years of sailing experience, describing small-boat voyaging from a unique and deeply considered perspective.
Author |
: Karen R. Lawrence |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2018-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501732492 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501732498 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Penelope Voyages by : Karen R. Lawrence
Looking at travel writing by British women from the seventeenth century on, Karen R. Lawrence asks an intriguing question: What happens when, instead of waiting patiently for Odysseus, Penelope voyages and records her journey—when the woman who is expected to waitsets forth herself and traces an itinerary of her own? Lawrence ranges widely, discussing both fiction and nonfiction and traversing the genres of travel letters, realistic and sentimental novels, ethnography, fantasy, and postmodern narrative. In examining works as dissimilar as Margaret Cavendish's rendition of the Renaissance adventure narrative and Christine Brooke-Rose's postmodernist Between, she explores not only the significance of gender for travel writing, but also the value of travel itself for testing the limits of women's social freedoms and restraints. Lawrence shows how writings by Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sarah Lee, Mary Kingsley, Virginia Woolf, and Brigid Brophy reconceive the meanings of femininity in relation to such apparent oppositions as travel/home, other/self, and foreign/domestic. Despite the differences-historical, generic, political-among these writers, Lawrence maintains, they share common insights. Their accounts overturn the dichotomy between adventure and domesticity, demonstrating something illusory within both the stability of home and the freedom of travel.
Author |
: Catharina Purwani Williams |
Publisher |
: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2007-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789812303943 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9812303944 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Maiden Voyages by : Catharina Purwani Williams
Emphasizes how travel situates Eastern Indonesian women at the intersection of ethnicity/place, class and gender politics. Investigates theoretical issues of travel within feminist geography frameworks. Field research focuses on contemporary rural women and was conducted mainly in parts of East Nusa Tenggara and while travelling on boats in the region.
Author |
: Siân Evans |
Publisher |
: St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2021-08-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250246479 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250246474 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Maiden Voyages by : Siân Evans
In an engaging and anecdotal social history, Siân Evans's Maiden Voyages explores how women’s lives were transformed by the Golden Age of ocean liner travel between Europe and North America. During the early twentieth century, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women, whose lives were changed forever by their journeys between the Old World and the New. Some traveled for leisure, some for work; others to reinvent themselves or find new opportunities. They were celebrities, migrants and millionaires, refugees, aristocrats and crew members whose stories have mostly remained untold—until now. Maiden Voyages is a fascinating portrait of the era, the ships themselves, and these women as they crossed the Atlantic. The ocean liner was a microcosm of contemporary society, divided by class: from the luxury of the upper deck, playground for the rich and famous, to the cramped conditions of steerage or third class travel. In first class you’ll meet A-listers like Marlene Dietrich, Wallis Simpson, and Josephine Baker; the second class carried a new generation of professional and independent women, like pioneering interior designer Sibyl Colefax. Down in steerage, you’ll follow the journey of émigré Maria Riffelmacher as she escapes poverty in Europe. Bustling between decks is a crew of female workers, including Violet “The Unsinkable Stewardess” Jessop, who survived the Titanic disaster. Entertaining and informative, Maiden Voyages captures the golden age of ocean liners through the stories of the women whose transatlantic journeys changed the shape of society on both sides of the globe.
Author |
: John McAleer |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2023-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192894748 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192894749 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Atlantic Voyages by : John McAleer
As he prepared to embark for India in 1774, Alexander Mackrabie's excitement at the sights to be seen and novelties to be experienced was palpable. Mackrabie's journey was conducted under the auspices of the London-based East India Company and was one of the many thousands of Company voyages that brought Europeans into contact with Asian countries and cultures, as well as numerous people and places along the way. Atlantic Voyages tells the story of travellers like Mackrabie as they navigated the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, reflecting on who and what they had left behind in Europe, looking forward to new challenges in Asia, and evaluating the sights and smells, sounds and tastes, hopes and expectations, fears and regrets, that regaled their senses and played on their minds as they sailed along the way. It charts the tension between tedium and terror on the one hand, and exhilaration and excitement on the other, attempting to understand the maritime space of the Atlantic as it was experienced by the people who traversed its waters. The lives of the people carried by East Indiamen were deeply affected by their Atlantic experiences. They confronted the reality of shipboard life: its seasickness and boredom, its cramped living conditions, its questionable dining fare, and its severely restricted privacy. They acclimatised to the rhythms of the ocean and the vicissitudes of the weather. They encountered rites of passage and ceremonies of initiation on the high seas. They prepared themselves for cultural disorientation and a host of unusual sights and sensations. And they wondered at the extraordinary beauty of the elements around them - the sea, the sky, the islands - and the strangeness of their inhabitants, human and animal alike. The ship's passage played a crucial role in shaping the responses and experiences of those individuals surrounded by its wooden walls. Their words bring to life this maritime journey, illuminate the experiences of the people who undertook it, and contribute to our understanding of the place of the Atlantic Ocean in wider histories of the East India Company and the British Empire in this period.
Author |
: Jaś Elsner |
Publisher |
: Reaktion Books |
Total Pages |
: 358 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1861890206 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781861890207 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Voyages and Visions by : Jaś Elsner
A much-needed contribution to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a cultural history of travel from the sixteenth century to the present day. The essays address the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, focusing on significant episodes and encounters in world history. The contributors to this collection include historians of art and of science, anthropologists, literary critics and mainstream cultural historians. Their essays encompass a challenging range of subjects, including the explorations of South America, India and Mexico; mountaineering in the Himalayas; space travel; science fiction; and American post-war travel fiction. Voyages and Visions is truly interdisciplinary, and essential reading for anyone interested in travel writing. With essays by Kasia Boddy, Michael Bravo, Peter Burke, Melissa Calaresu, Jesus Maria Carillo Castillo, Peter Hansen, Edward James, Nigel Leask, Joan-Pau Rubies and Wes Williams.
Author |
: Andrew Sloan Draper |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 428 |
Release |
: 1918 |
ISBN-10 |
: IOWA:31858042659684 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Draper's Self Culture: Exploration, travel and invention by : Andrew Sloan Draper
Author |
: Mary C. Fuller |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 1995-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521481619 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521481618 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Voyages in Print by : Mary C. Fuller
The decades leading up to England's first permanent American colony saw not only territorial and commercial expansion but also the emergence of a vast and heterogeneous literature. In the multiple relations of writing to discovery over these decades, these texts played a role more powerful than that of simple recording. They needed to establish certain realities against a background of scepticism - the possibility of discovery, the lands discovered, the intentions and experiences of the discoverers - and they also had to find ways of theorizing their enterprise. Yet conceiving of the American enterprise positively or even survivably proved surprisingly difficult; the voyage narratives evolved almost from the outset as a genre concerned with recuperating failure - as noble, strategic, even as a form of success. Reception of these texts from the Victorian era on has often accepted their claims of heroism and mastery; through a careful re-reading, Mary Fuller argues for a more complicated, less glorious history.