The article analyses the ways in which women began to write about travel in the course of the eighteenth-century and in order to do so had to appropriate literary traditions which had been developed by male writers. This brought to an inevitable manipulation of the discourses of travel circulating at the time, and opened the way to potential subversions of the ideologies about women's place in society. The way in which the image of Italy was "translated" in order to serve a specific purpose is the subject of the article.
Agorni, M., Hester Piozzi's Observations and Reflections: Italy in the Feminine, in Crisafulli, L. M. (ed.), Immaginando l'Italia: itinerari letterari del Romanticismo inglese. Imagining Italy. Literary Itineraries in British Romanticism, Clueb, Bologna 2002: 71- 80 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/35406]
Hester Piozzi's Observations and Reflections: Italy in the Feminine
Agorni, Mirella
2002
Abstract
The article analyses the ways in which women began to write about travel in the course of the eighteenth-century and in order to do so had to appropriate literary traditions which had been developed by male writers. This brought to an inevitable manipulation of the discourses of travel circulating at the time, and opened the way to potential subversions of the ideologies about women's place in society. The way in which the image of Italy was "translated" in order to serve a specific purpose is the subject of the article.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.