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020			_a9781138245839
028			_a: International Book Distributors _b: Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Building No.-4405/2. _c: 120393 _d: 22/04/2024
082			_a820.935 JOH
100			_a Johnston, Judith.
245			_aVictorian Women and the Economies of Travel, Translation and Culture, 1830-1870 _c/ Judith Johnston.
260			_a, New York _b: Routledge _c, 2016.
300			_aviii,202p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b3752
520			_aBoth travel and translation involve a type of journey, one with literal and metaphorical dimensions. Judith Johnston brings together these two richly resonant modes of getting from here to there as she explores their impact on culture with respect to the work of Victorian women. Using the metaphor of the published journey, whether it involves actual travel or translation, Johnston focusses particularly on the relationships of various British women with continental Europe. At the same time, she sheds light on the possibility of appropriation and British imperial enhancement that such contact produces. Johnston's book is in part devoted to case studies of women such as Sarah Austin, Mary Busk, Anna Jameson, Charlotte Guest, Jane Sinnett and Mary Howitt who are representative of women travellers, translators and journalists during a period when women became increasingly robust participants in the publishing industry. Whether they wrote about their own travels or translated the foreign language texts of other writers, Johnston shows, women were establishing themselves as actors in the broad business of culture. In widening our understanding of the ways in which gender and modernity functioned in the early decades of the Victorian age, Johnston's book makes a strong case for a greater appreciation of the contributions nineteenth-century women made to what is termed the knowledge empire.
650			_aVictorian Women
650			_aEconomies of Travel
650			_aCulture
700			_aJudith Johnston.
942			_cBOOK
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