Political Affairs of the Heart

Introduction: Critical Contexts: Eighteenth-Century Women's Travel Writing

Part One: Mobile Feelings: Mapping the Sentimental Traveler

1 "Altogether of a Different Cast": The Development of the Sentimental Traveler

Part Two: Divided Sympathies: Female Sentimental Travel Writers and the American Revolution

2 "I Am Sure You Will Share My Feelings": Janet Schaw's Journal of a Lady of Quality, Imperial Desire, and the American Revolution

3 The Ties That Bind: Sentimentalizing Colonialism in A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland

Part Three: Sensibility in Distress: Female Sentimental Travel Writers and the French Revolution

4 Revitalizing Sensibility: Mary Morgan's Defense of Emotional Engagement in A Tour to Milford Haven

5 "A Renovation of Existence": Helen Maria Williams's A Tour in Switzerland and the Renewal of Political Vision

Epilogue: "An Affair of the Heart"

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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• Estudos de gênero: as mulheres
• Companheiros literários, resenhas de livros e guias
• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800

travel writing; female travel writers; sensibility; revolution; bluestocking; Helen Maria Williams; Mary Morgan; Janet Schaw