{"product_id":"political-affairs-of-the-heart-linda-van-netten-blimke-9781684484058","title":"Political Affairs of the Heart: Female Travel Writers, the Sentimental Travelogue, and Revolution, 1775-1800","description":"Richly researched and engagingly written, \u003ci\u003e Political Affairs of the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteenth-century Britain, and posits its centrality to women's engagement with national and gender politics. This study examines four travel narratives written by women between 1774 and 1795, convincingly arguing that they effectively deploy the discourse of sensibility to engage with debates around Britain's national identity during the French and American Revolutions. Van Netten Blimke contends that Laurence Sterne's \u003ci\u003eA Sentimental Journey\u003c\/i\u003e (1768)--which first introduced sentimental discourse to the travelogue--facilitated women's gradual inclusion into this previously male-dominated genre, effectively paving the way for women to influence the country's sociopolitical transformation. These four previously understudied works successfully combine eyewitness authority with the language of sensibility to mount impassioned interventions in their nation's perception and practice of revolutionary politics, at a time when its national identity was most in flux.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Linda Van Netten Blimke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1684484057\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781684484058\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bucknell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Linda Van Netten Blimke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44069510250751,"sku":"9781684484058","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_522e1b5d-0aea-488e-a6c2-994739e3a5c7.jpg?v=1685425108","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/political-affairs-of-the-heart-linda-van-netten-blimke-9781684484058","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}