Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts : gendered narratives of encounter / edited by Claudia Capancioni, Mariaconcetta Costantini and Julia Kuehn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Capancioni, Claudia.

Contributor:

Capancioni

Series:

Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century Series

Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travel writing--History--19th century.

Travel writing.

Women travelers--History--19th century.

Women travelers.

Asia--Orient.

Orient--In literature.

Orient.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2026.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Claudia Capancioni is Professor of English Literature at Lincoln Bishop University, UK.

Mariaconcetta Costantini is Professor of English Literature at G. d'Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara, Italy.

Julia Kuehn is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Summary:

This collectionreassesses and revitalises the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century 'Easts'. It offers novel conceptualisations and methodologies to fictions and travel writing in and of the cultural, geographical and ideological contexts surrounding the nineteenth-century Easts, from the Balkans to the Far East.

Contents:

Front matter

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts: an introduction

Part I: Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire

An Orientalist view of Eastern Europe at the end of the long nineteenth century: analysing Baroness Orczy's autobiographical novel, A Son of the People

Mary Edith Durham in Albania: rethinking identity across geographic, generic and gender boundaries

Ottoman women in transition in Mary Adelaide Walker's Eastern Life and Scenery

Part II: Egypt

Lucie Duff Gordon's palimpsestuous views of Egypt

'Transported bodily into the Arabian Nights': Janet Ross's Egyptian fascination in The Fourth Generation: Reminiscences (1912)

Trollope's unprotected females in the 'East'

Part III: India

Transnational encounters in Anglophone Indian women's writing

The women of Reynolds's 'East': The Sepoys, or Highland Jessie

'Be still and listen': encountering and understanding the 'East' in Margaret Harkness's writings

Marriage and female self-abnegation and heroism in Flora Annie Steel's 'Uma Himāvutee' and 'The Sorrowful Hour' (1897)

Part IV: The Middle and Far East

New nineteenth-century perspectives on the Middle East through the travelogues of Italian women writers Amalia Nizzoli and Cristina Trivulzio di Belgioioso

Dangerous encounters: British women travellers and unwanted proximity in late nineteenth-century China

'I am beginning to enter the joys of a naturalist': Anna Forbes's explorations of the Malay Archipelago

Lessons in loyalty: gender, kinship and politics in Mary Crawford Fraser's Japan

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-5261-8441-9

1-5261-8443-5

9781526184412

OCLC:

1586548415