Artikel
Travel, sensibility and gender : the rhetoric of female travel writing in Sophie von La Roche's "Tagebuch einer Reise durch Holland und England"
Verfasst von:
Martin, Alison E.
in:
German life and letters
Oxford [u.a.]:
2004
,
127 - 142 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Martin, Alison E. |
| In: | German life and letters |
| Jahr: | 2004 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Beschreibung: | |
| This article queries the traditionally held view that Sophie von La Roche's travel account of England, the "Tagebuch einer Reise durch Holland und England" (1788), was a purely sentimental work. It offers a detailed examination of the rhetorical strategies used by La Roche to represent England to a German-speaking readership and asks how these negotiated their way around notions of female inquiry and sentimentalised "female" modes of writing. It examines first how La Roche used a variety of rhetorical devices, both sentimental and scientific, to locate her account within the shifting modes of representation in use in travel writing at the close of the eighteenth century... | |
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