Performing the self: identity-formation in the travel accounts of nineteenth-century British women in Italy

<p>From the adventures of Odysseus to those of the male Grand Tourist, travel has often been regarded as an important rite of masculine self-fashioning. However, as this thesis argues, travel and travel writing also provided a valuable opportunity for women's self-fashioning: journeys off...

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Main Authors: Sikstrom, H, Hannah Sikstrom
Other Authors: Evangelista, S
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2015
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