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1 online resource (266 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature |
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Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature.
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| Contents |
Cover; A Female Poetics of Empire; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Exoticism as System: Difference and Representation; 2 Beyond Orientalism: Exoticising Daniel Deronda; 3 Desire, Love and Mixed-Race Children: Plotting Anglo-Indian Popular Fiction; 4 Women's Orientalist Harem Paintings: Gender, Documentation and Imagination; 5 Veiled Narratives, Double Identities: Women's Travelogues about the Middle East; 6 Picturesque Views of Cairo: Touring the Land, Framing the Foreign |
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7 Infelicities: Representing Hot Love in the Popular Women's Desert Romance8 Modernist Exoticism: The Voyage Out and In; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
Many well-known male writers produced fictions about colonial spaces and discussed the advantages of realism over romance, and vice versa, in the 'art of fiction' debate of the 1880s; but how did female writers contribute to colonial fiction?This volume links fictional, non-fictional and pictorial representations of a colonial otherness with the late nineteenth-century artistic concerns about representational conventions and possibilities. The author explores these texts and images through the postcolonial framework of 'exoticism', arguing that the epistemological dilemma of a 'self' encounter |
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Print version record |
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Travelers' writings, English -- Orient -- History and criticism
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Orientalism in literature.
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Exoticism in literature.
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Orientalism in art.
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Exoticism in art.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature
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English literature -- Women authors
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Exoticism in art
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Exoticism in literature
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Orientalism in art
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Orientalism in literature
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Travelers' writings, English
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Women and literature
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Asia -- Orient
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134663064 |
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1134663064 |
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