Ithaca College

Dr. Dyani Johns Taff, Lecturer in the Department of English, has published an essay in a new collection devoted to the study of women's travel in early modern literature and culture.  Her essay is entitled "Precarious Travail, Gender, and Narration in Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre, and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World."  The collection, co-edited by Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Andrea, is entitled Travel and Travail:  Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World.

Dr. Taff's essay explores narrative renderings especially of feminine travel in Shakespeare's play and in Cavendish's unclassifiable work of prose fiction.  Her article joins several others in the second half of the anthology that focus on questions and issues relative to gender that emerge particularly in moments of imagined travel, primarily in dramatic works.  The first half of the collection contains essays that address historical women and their global travels, particularly in the seventeenth century.

The anthology is published by the University of Nebraska Press, and first entered the market in January of this year.  A link to the anthology's page on the press' website can be found here.