 | Penelope Voyages: Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition Subjects: Travelers’ writings English -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women travelers -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism; English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- Hi; 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... Karen R. Lawrence is Professor of English at the University of Utah. She is the author of books including T he Odyssey of Style in Ulysses and the editor of Decolonizing Traditions: New Views of Twentieth-Century "British" Literary Canons and The McGraw-Hill Guide to English Literature . |
