Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility, 1784–1814 (Paperback)

Introduction: reluctant wanderers; 1. 'Circling eye' to 'houseless stranger': the shifting landscape of the long poem; 2. The desolations of wandering: Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets; 3. 'The irresistible force of circumstances': the poetics of wandering in Radcliffean Gothic; 4. 'Take, o world! thy much indebted tear!': Mary Wollstonecraft travels; 5. 'No motive of choice': Frances Burney and the wandering novel; Coda: 'He could afford to suffer': losses and gains.