British women travellers : empire and beyond, 1770-1870 / edited by Sutapa Dutta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dutta, Sutapa, editor.

Series:

Routledge research in gender and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, English.

English prose literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English prose literature.

English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Women travelers--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Women travelers.

Women travelers--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Colonies in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

History.

Great Britain--Colonies.

Great Britain.

Colonies.

British colonies.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"This book studies the exclusive refractive perspectives of British women who took up the twin challenges of travel and writing when Britain was establishing itself as the greatest empire on earth. Contributors explore the ways in which travel writing has defined women's engagement with Empire and British identity, and was inextricably linked with the issue of identity formation. With a capacious geographical canvas, this volume examines the multifaceted relations and negotiations of British women travellers in a range of different imperial contexts across continents from America, Africa, Europe to Australia"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

On the Continent, framing "Britishness". Colonising the French : Elizabeth Inchbald's cultural appropriation / Ben P. Robertson

Views of an "overthrown" kingdom : Britishness and otherness in The Spanish journal of Elizabeth Holland / Antonio Calvo Maturana

Roman monuments, ruins and remains : British women travellers' perception of historical heritage in the early 19th century / Barbara Tetti

On terrains of the other empire : Mary Holderness' account of her residence in early 19th-century Crimea / Nataliia Voloshkova

In the Colonies, defining "non-British". The politics of feasting : Janet Schaw's sensory experience of the West Indies / Georgina Elisabeth Munn

Creating a "more popular work" : the lasting influence of Maria Graham's Journal of a residence in India (1812) / Lacy Marschalk

The Memsahibs' gaze : representation of the Zenana in India / Sutapa Dutta

Gossip, mosquitos, and "well-made" men : Isabella Fane's vision of colonial India / Shannon Derby

"Servant of the cross" : identity, travel and colonial culture in the letters of Mary Moffat in South Africa / Michelle Adler

An "honorary man" in the Holy Land? : Mary Eliza Rogers, gender, and British Protestant imperialism / Sarah Irving

In the settler colonies, furthering the "Other" British. "English, yet essentially un-English" : female constructions of imperial belonging in Melbourne, 1850-1870 / Sophie Cooper

In search of the romantic aesthetic : British women travellers in 19th-century America / Justyna Fruzińska

Carriage and canoe : the material vessels of Anna Brownell Jameson's voyage in upper Canada / Sophie Anne Edwards.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: British women travellers.

ISBN:

9780367343347

0367343347

OCLC:

1119121587