2007/03/01 by Nathalie Hester
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Art #Historical Art and Culture Studies #Historical Influence and Diplomacy #Historical and Literary Studies #History #Literature #Narrative #Travel writing
paper · doi:10.1525/hlq.2007.70.1.87
openalex publication_date 2007/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
In this article Nathalie Hester considers the complex narrative strategies of one of the earliest printed travel accounts by a French woman, Travels to Spain (1691), by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy. She examines how the author draws both from the fact-focused discourses of travel writing and from the stylistic and structural norms of literary genres such as epistolary writing, novels, and short stories. D'Aulnoy's explicit interweaving of elements from categories usually considered to be mutually exclusive or even contradictory-history and fiction-functions tactically to establish her authority as a woman traveler and travel writer.