Write a research paper that explains the following: What are some travel writing examples?According to Carl Thompson, “Feminist scholars have . . . been greatly interested in the
autobiographical aspects of travel writing, using female-authored travelogues to explore the
ways in which female subjectivities were formed and articulated in different periods and
cultures. Further to this, they have also paid much attention to the differing perspectives that
women travellers often provide on the countries and cultures they visit, in comparison with
male travellers visiting the same destinations. This in turn has prompted some scholars to ask
whether men and women travel in fundamentally different ways, and whether they produce
intrinsically different types of travel writing. Like many editors of anthologies of women’s travel
writing, moreover, Morris also seems to take it for granted that female authored travelogues
will usually share distinctively ‘feminine’ characteristics that set them apart from travel
accounts produced by men. In this spirit, for example, she suggests that women travel writers
are typically more concerned with the ‘inner landscape’ and ‘the writer’s own inner workings’,
than their male counterparts (2007: 9). Another anthologist, Jane Robinson, meanwhile, claims
that ‘men’s travel accounts are to do with ‘What and Where,’ and women’s with ‘How and
Why’ (Carl Thompson, 172-173)
Examine Mary Wortley Montagu and Jemima Kindersley’s travel writing, using any aspects of
female travel writing identified above. Can you make a case for distinctively ‘feminine’
characteristics that set them apart from travel accounts produced by men? What specific
details from their narratives reveal these insights for you? Are they similar or different from
each other in the way they approach their travel experiences and “other” cultures?
Read the entire chapter, “Question of Gender and Sexuality” from Carl Thompson’s book and
incorporate some of the discussions there into your analysis. You will also need at least one
scholarly source to help with your analysis. Also, make sure you read ALL the letters from both
authors before you identify your details.
Your paper should be six pages and have a Works Cited page.
IMPORTANT: Please write this essay in a simple way everyone can understand
