Traveling women narrative visions of early America /

Imbarrato, Susan Clair.

Traveling women narrative visions of early America / [electronic resource] : Susan Clair Imbarrato. - Athens : Ohio University Press, c2006. - xiii, 254 p. : ill., map.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-245) and index.

The language of travel : the practical and the picturesque -- Ordinary travel : public houses and travel conditions -- Writing into the Ohio frontier : genteel expectations and rustic realities -- Literary crossroads : travel narrative, poetry, and novel -- Capturing experience : travel narrative and letter, a comparative view.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
American prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Travel writing--History--18th century.
Travel writing--History--19th century.
Women travelers--History.--United States


United States--Description and travel.


Electronic books.

PS366.T73 / I43 2006

810.9/320922