Artikel
Matrilinear journalising : Mary and Dorothy Wordsworth's 1820 continental tours and the female sublime
Verfasst von:
Boden, Helen
in:
Wallingford:
1998
,
329 - 352 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Boden, Helen |
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| Jahr: | 1998 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article introduces Mary Wordsworth as a travel writer, and contributes to the growing debate about the "female sublime" by suggesting how the sublime is used, in slightly different ways, by Dorothy and Mary Wordsworth to interrogate the nature of writing and reprsentation. It opens with a brief discussion of the textual history of the extant Mary Wordsworth manuscripts, especially as compared with those of dorothy Wordsworth, indicating what this suggests about the politics of the canon. The author shows how contemporary writers, together with later editors and readers, have conspired to marginalise Mary Wordsworth. Read against the frain, however her 1820 "Journal of a Tour on the Continent" emerges as a collaborative textual enterprse (with her sister-in-law, and less directly, with her intended audience, her daughter), in which she raises nonetheless occupies a clear subject-position of her won, and which raises important questions about her concept of authorship and response... | |
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