Maria graham a literary biography

Shipped from UK. Regina Akel. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within working days New - Hardcover Condition: Neu. From Germany to United Kingdom. Quantity: 1 available. Condition: Neu. The result of her endeavours is a literary persona that appears far removed from the controversial woman that she actually was.

Who is the woman behind the texts How did she conceive them Was she simply one of many other adventurous and articulate female authors of the nineteenth century, or did she for some reason stand apart This book shows how she manufactured her identity at times by conforming to, challenging, or ignoring the rules of society regarding women's behaviour.

She was a child of the Enlightenment in that she valued knowledge above all things, yet she flavoured her discoveries with a taste of romanticism. The chosen texts are meant to illustrate salient features of her style and of her interaction with the prevalent ideologies of her time. The intention is to display a groundbreaking female intellectual who captured for her readers the ancient culture of India as deftly as she represented bloodthirsty bandits in the north of Italy or nascent countries in South America.

Loading interface About the author. Regina Akel 6 books. Write a Review. Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book! That year she sailed to India with her father, whom she had not seen for the past ten years. At this stage in her life, the travel writer was born.

Maria graham a literary biography

She then married Lieutenant Thomas Graham in India at the end of and returned home after two years. They traveled to South America, and her husband passed away during this journey. She chose to remain in South America where she met leaders of the government, prominent members of society, and British naval officers who were in the country helping to consolidate its independence from Spain.

During her stay in South America — , she wrote and published two journals, the Journal of a Residence in Chile and the Journal of a Voyage to Brazil. In Chile, one of the two Latin American countries she wrote about in , Maria Graham is a well-known figure whose journal is periodically reissued, quoted, and discussed. In Brazil, the other country she visited and wrote about, Graham is known as a scholar and travel writer in academic circles, and as a gay icon in popular culture.

The result of her endeavours is a literary persona that appears far removed from the controversial woman that she actually was. Who is the woman behind the texts? How did she conceive them? Was she simply one of many other adventurous and articulate female authors of the nineteenth century, or did she for some reason stand apart? She was a child of the Enlightenment in that she valued knowledge above all things, yet she flavoured her discoveries with a taste of romanticism.

Her search took her to distant lands where she captured for her readers foreign cultural manifestations, exotic landscapes, and obscure religious rites; yet a reading of her work generates the impression that despite the dramatic descriptions of peoples and places, Graham's subject was, simply, herself. What we know of her story comes mainly from her own narratives, although there are significant letters to, from, and about her that round up the analysis.

This biography reconstructs Maria Graham's literary image by means of significant passages of her work, memoirs, diaries, journals, and letters.