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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

travel journals, Elisa von der Recke, women

College

Humanities

Department

German and Russian

Abstract

Travel journalism was one of the most popular forms of literature in the early nineteenth century. Because it was so widely read, it affected many people and therefore had significant historical impact. In addition, it was one of the few literary genres that women were allowed to participate in. Elisa von der Recke (born 1754) was one of the first females to take advantage of this publically acceptable genre. Although her work includes poetry, an exposé and other writings, her travel journals play a central role in her literary and journalistic production. As a part of the Sophie Project, an effort to rediscover the marginalized female authors in the German language, my project centered on making the importance and impact of Recke’s journals clear to interested readers by co-authoring the introduction to Recke’s travel journals in Volume II of a Collected Works of Elisa von der Recke.

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