| Description |
xi, 345 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. Place Matters -- Ch. 2. Port of Entry: Colonial Singapore -- Ch. 3. The Holy Land of Victorian Science: Anna Forbes, with Henry Forbes and Alfred Russel Wallace in the Eastern Archipelago -- Ch. 4. Botany and Marianne North: Painting "A Garland about the Earth" -- Ch. 5. The Company as the Country: On the Malay Peninsula with Isabella Bird and Emily Innes -- Ch. 6. "One's Own State": Margaret Brooke, Harriette McDougall, and Sarawak -- Ch. 7. Anna Leonowens: Women Talking in the Royal Harem of Siam -- Ch. 8. Looking Behind and Ahead |
| Summary |
Susan Morgan's study of materials and regions previously neglected in contemporary postcolonial studies begins with the transforming premise that "place matters." Concepts derived from writings about one area of the world cannot simply be transposed to another area, in some sort of global theoretical move. Moreover, place in the discourse of Victorian imperialism is a matter of gendered as well as geographic terms. Taking up works by Anna Forbes and Marianne North on the Malay Archipelago, by Margaret Brooke and Harriette McDougall on Sarawak, by Isabella Bird and Emily Innes on British Malaya, by Anna Leonowens on Siam, Morgan also makes extensive use of theorists whose work on imperialism in Southeast Asia is unfamiliar to most American academics |
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This vivid examination of a different region and different writings emphasizes that in Victorian literature there was no monolithic imperialist location, authorial or geographic. The very notion of a "colony" or an "imperial presence" in Southeast Asia is problematic. Morgan is concerned with marking the intersections of particular Victorian imperial histories and constructions of subjectivity. She argues that specific places in Southeast Asia have distinctive, and differing, masculine imperial rhetorics. It is within these specific rhetorical contexts that women's writings, including their moments of critique, can be read |
| Analysis |
British History Historiography 19th century Southeast Asia |
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English prose literature History and criticism 19th century |
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English prose literature Women authors History and criticism |
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Feminism and literature History 19th century Southeast Asia |
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Place (Philosophy) in literature |
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Travel writing History 19th century |
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Travelers' writings, English History and criticism Southeast Asia |
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Women and literature History 19th century Great Britain |
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Women travelers History Historiography 19th century Southeast Asia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-332) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. |
| Subject |
Women travelers in literature.
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Travelers' writings, English -- Southeast Asia -- History and criticism.
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Travel writing -- History -- 19th century.
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British -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography.
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Women travelers -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography.
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Feminism and literature -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 19th century.
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British -- Travel -- Southeast Asia -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography.
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Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism.
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English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| LC no. |
95021408 |
| ISBN |
081352248X clorh alkaline paper |
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0813522498 paperback alkaline paper |
