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Re-examining nineteenth-century Eastscontributes novel approaches to gendered and gendering fictions and travel writing in and of the cultural-geographical-ideological contexts surrounding nineteenth-century Easts. It examines underexplored stories of travel and narratives of encounter to reconsider the western allure of travelling to the Easts - from the Balkans to the Middle and Far East, through a range of diverse critical approaches. It discusses writers - travellers, novelists, and short-story writers - who authored texts based on their varied experiences in eastern lands. It also analyses how views of eastern places became a rich source of material for identity formations related to Empire but also discussions about masculinity and femininity at 'home'.
Contents
Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts: an introduction - Claudia Capancioni, Mariaconcetta Costantini and Julia Kuehn
Section 1: EASTERN EUROPE AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
1 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 - Agnes Strickland-Pajtok
2 Mary Edith Durham in Albania: rethinking identity across geographic, generic and gender boundaries - Mariaconcetta Costantini
3 Ottoman women in transition in Mary Adelaide Walker's Eastern Life and Scenery - Elisabetta Marino
Section 2: EGYPT
4 Lucie Duff Gordon's palimpsestuous views of Egypt - Claudia Capancioni
5 'Transported bodily into the Arabian Nights': Janet Ross's Egyptian fascination in The Fourth Generation: Reminiscences (1912) - Claudia Zilletti
6 Trollope's unprotected females in the East - Kristine Swenson
Section 3: INDIA
7 Transnational encounters in Anglophone Indian women's writing - Éadaoin Agnew
8 The women of Reynolds's 'East': The Sepoys, or Highland Jessie - Rebecca Nesvet
9 'Be still and listen': encountering and understanding the East in Margaret Harkness's writings - Greta Perletti
10 Marriage and female self-abnegation and heroism in Flora Annie Steel's 'Uma Himavutee' and 'The Sorrowful Hour' (1897) - Graziella Stringos & Mireille Vila
Section 4: THE MIDDLE AND FAR EAST
11 New nineteenth-century perspectives on the Middle East through the travelogues of Italian women writers Amalia Nizzoli and Cristina Trivulzio di Belgioioso - Giulia Nonno
12 Dangerous encounters: British women travellers and unwanted proximity in late nineteenth-century China - Silvia Granata
13 'I am beginning to enter the joys of a naturalist': Anna Forbes's explorations of the Malay Archipelago - Laurence Talairach
14 Lessons in loyalty: gender, kinship and politics in Mary Crawford Fraser's Japan - Helena Esser
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