ABSTRACT
In the analysis of Anna Brownell Jameson's transatlantic travel narrative Winter Studies and Summer Rambles, this chapter focuses on Oerlemans's and Rigby's insights. By considering the ways in which Jameson configures nature as an active agent that problematizes and destabilizes her Eurocentric aesthetic assumptions in a process of dialogic exchange. It examines some of the key ways in which she is subsequently forced to reinvent Romantic frameworks and reconstruct her authorial identity within the new transatlantic context. Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan explain the concept of gender imbalance in travel writing thus: Travel and travel writing are saturated with mythology, but more often than not the myths they invoke are predominantly male. Recognizing the failure of Romantic aesthetic ideals to accommodate actual sites, she realizes that nature must be redefined to suit her own experience. Bina Friewald, 'Femininely Speaking': Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, in Shirley Neuman and Smaro Kamboureli, A Mazing Space: Writing Canadian Women Writing.
