Thesis
Performing the self: identity-formation in the travel accounts of nineteenth-century British women in Italy
- Abstract:
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From the adventures of Odysseus to those of the male Grand Tourist, travel has often been regarded as an important rite of masculine self-fashioning. However, as this thesis argues, travel and travel writing also provided a valuable opportunity for women's self-fashioning: journeys offered women a means of altering themselves, enabling them to assume a novel identity abroad and in text, whether it be a subversive or idealised version of themselves. Drawing upon Judith Butler's and Sidonie ...
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Funding
+ Clarendon Fund, Vice Chancellors' Fund, Brasenose College,
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Sikstrom, H
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2015
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:12146
- Deposit date:
- 2015-08-13
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- Copyright holder:
- Hannah Sikstrom
- Copyright date:
- 2015
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