Lawrence's Female Travellers

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In Study of Thomas Hardy, Lawrence rephrases a common trope of the male venture within the unknown of the female (STH 104) an alienating yet fulfilling journey, echoing many representations of travelling by male writers and critics a phallic thrust forward into the world. As critic Karen R. Lawrence states in Penelope Voyages : Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition, the traveller is conventionally portrayed as a male who crosses boundaries and penetrates spaces ; the fem...