Gender, Companionship, and Travel: Discourses in Pre-modern and Modern Travel Literature

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Who is carrying the luggage? Gendered discourses on
companionship in travel writing: an introduction
	New perspectives
	Narrative 1: home sweet home
	Narrative 2: beyond the discourse
	A journey through the volume
	Notes
1. On the ship in Petronius’ Satyrica: gender roles on the move in the early Roman Empire
	In search of the author, or: La Questione Petroniana
	Representing and voicing reality
	What makes a man and a woman
	Social and gender ambiguity
	Clearly, all women are the same
	The travelling man
	The double standard
	Travelling in liminal space
	Conclusion
	Notes
2. Meeting the holy men: self-perception of the female traveller and interaction between men and women in the late antique Itinerarium Egeriae
	Egeria and her readers
	Egeria’s company
	The holy men
	Egeria’s depiction of the holy (wo)men
	Conclusion
	Notes
3. “He proved to be an inseparable travel companion”: Emo of Wittewierum and his Rome journey in 1211–1212
	To Rome we go
	Travel and companions
	Strange company, company as stranger
	Emo and his companion
	Fighting injustice
	Off to Rome
	Success and drama
	Notes
4. Not for weaker vessels?! Travel and gender in the early modern low countries
	Venus’ ascension: Netherlandish women on the move
	Venus in shackles: limits for female travelling
	Mars meets Venus: gender differences in travel behaviour and writing
	Mars on his own: male identity and travel behaviour
	Conclusion
	Notes
5. The travels/travails of Mme de Sévigné: the companion(s) of an inveterate letter writer
	Travel companion(s) wanted (f/m)
	Letter-writing as a life-necessity
	Travelling – why and where?
	Travelling – how and with who(m)?
	Travelling, writing, talking: the complexities of companionship
	Destinations, descriptions, discussions
	Conclusion
	Notes
6. Female passengers and female voices in early modern Dutch travelogues of leisure trips (1669–1748)
	Introduction
	Leisure trips
	Reflections of male travellers: De Jonge van Ellemeet, Hinlopen, and Van Assendelft
	Reflections of female travellers: De la Court, De Vassy, Timmers
	Conclusion
	Notes
7. Memsahibs’ travel writings: wifely virtues and female imperial historiography
	Women and empire
	Wifely duties: women’s roles in conjugal, and imperial order
	Companionship and individualism: alternative/supplementary imperial historiography
	Conclusion
	Notes
8. Travelogues by two companions describing Rachel’s American odyssée mortelle 1855–1856
	Three approaches
	Rachel as a tourist
	Rachel performing and travelling in America
	Rachel’s last journey
	Conclusion
	Notes
9. Companions and competitors: men and women travellers and travel writing in the mid-nineteenth-century French Pyrenees
	The importance of writing
	Travelling to the Pyrenees
	From the voyage savant to the romantic Pyrenees
	Selina Bunbury and the problems of female travel
	Georgiana Chatterton and the disturbing otherness of Spain
	Mountaineers
	Conclusion
	Notes
10. Enamoured men – confident women: gender relations and the travel journal of Lilla von Bulyovszky (1833–1909)
	“Travel-intersections”: methodical and theoretical considerations on
travel-research, emotions, and gender
	Moving places of gender
	A woman’s travelogue
	Travelling actress/working woman
	“Travelling intersections” II: Lilla von Bulyovszky’s
companionships “en route”
	Transport vehicles and places
	Travelling woman: gender, emotion, movement
	Excluded intersections?
	“En route” with Alexandre Dumas: final thoughts
	Conclusion
	Notes
11. An Italian in Scandinavia: Elisa Cappellis’s idealizations of the North
	Italians in the Arctic
	A journey of one’s own: Italian women head northwards
	Elisa Cappelli in Sweden
	The idealised North
	Enjoying Ebba’s company: travelling with “my Swede”
	Conclusion
	Notes
12. Goddess and Leader: conflict and companionship in Agnes Herbert’s hunting travelogues
	Notes
13. “My luggage and my ladies were unloaded”: companionship in Cyriel Buysse’s De vroolijke tocht
	Off the beaten track
	Conclusion
	Notes
14. Comrade Lisa: spousal labour and family branding in Colin and Lisa Ross’s travel media
	Married to the Job: Lisa Ross, 1889–1945
	Travel Companion and Co.: Lisa Ross as a character and her female counterparts
	The Ross Bunch: domesticity on the move
	Conclusion
	Notes
15. The not-so-solo traveller: Mary Pos, Dutch writer and journalist
	Introduction
	The first female travel journalist
	Gracefully sliding down the gangboard
	“Why do so few Dutch girls travel on their own?”
	Contentment, bliss, and despair
	Male service
	Not just a little bit of friendliness
	Tour guides and a fiancé
	Conclusion
	Notes
Index