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Travel writing has become central to postcolonial studies; this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the genre. It combines detailed evaluations of major contemporary models of analysis--new historicism, travelling theory, and post-colonial studies--with a series of specific studies detailing the complicity of the genre with a history of violent incursion. These explore: "Othering" discourses--of cannibalism and infanticide; the production of colonial knowledge--geographic, medicinal, zoological; the role of sexual anxiety in the construction of the gendered travelling body; the interplay between imperial and domestic spheres; reappropriation of alien discourse by indigenous cultures. The book resists the temptation to think in terms of a simple monolithic Eurocentrism and offers a more complex reading of texts produced before, during and after periods of imperial ascendancy. In doing so, it provides a more nuanced account of the hegemonic functions of travel-writing.

Engelse reisbeschrijvingen --- Engelse reisverhalen --- English travelers' writings --- Postcolonialism --- Postcolonialisme --- Postkolonialisme --- Reisbeschrijving --- Reisbeschrijvingen [Engelse ] --- Reisverhalen [Engelse ] --- Récit de voyage --- Récits de voyage anglais --- Travel -- Authorship --- Travel writing --- Travelers' writings [English ] --- British --- Postcolonialism. --- Travel writing. --- Travelers' writings, English. --- Travelers' writings, English --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Travel --- Authorship --- English literature --- British (Nation) --- British - Travel. --- Recits de voyages --- Recits de voyages anglais

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Landscape in literature --- Landscapes in literature --- Landschap in de literatuur --- Landschappen in de literatuur --- Paysage dans la littérature --- Paysages dans la littérature --- Travelers' writings, English --- English travelers' writings --- English literature --- Travel writing --- History --- English language --- 19th century --- Style --- 18th century --- Aesthetics [British ] --- Women and literature --- Great Britain --- English prose literature --- History and criticism --- Women authors --- Women travelers --- Biography --- Travelers' writings [English ]

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Women Writing Greece explores images of modern Greece by women who experienced the country as travellers, writers, and scholars, or who journeyed there through the imagination. The essays assembled here consider women's travel narratives, memoirs and novels, ranging from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century, focusing on the role of gender in travel and cross-cultural mediation and challenging stereotypical views of 'the Greek journey', traditionally seen as an antiquarian or Byronic pursuit. This collection aims to cast new light on women's participation in the discourses of Hellenism and Orientalism, examining their ideological rendering of Greece as at once a luminous land and a site crossed by contradictory cultural memories. Arranged chronologically, the essays discuss encounters with Greece by, among others, Lady Elizabeth Craven, Lady Hester Stanhope, Lady Montagu, Lady Morgan, Mary Shelley, Felicia Skene, Emily Pfeiffer, Eva Palmer, Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth, Christa Wolf, Penelope Storace and Gillian Bouras, and analyse them through a variety of critical, historical, contextual and theoretical frames.

Women --- Orientalism in literature. --- Hellenism in literature. --- English prose literature --- Women travelers --- Travelers' writings, English --- English travelers' writings --- English literature --- Travelers, Women --- Travelers --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Travel --- Historiography. --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Biography --- Greece --- Description and travel. --- Description, geography --- Description and travel

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British --- Travelers' writings, English --- Travel --- History --- History and criticism --- Africa --- Description and travel --- Travelers --- -British --- -British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- Ethnology --- Travellers --- Voyagers --- Wayfarers --- Persons --- Voyages and travels --- -Africa --- -Eastern Hemisphere --- -History --- -Description and travel --- English travelers' writings --- English literature --- British people --- Description and travel. --- British travellers --- 19th century --- British - Travel - Africa - History - 19th century --- Travelers' writings, English - Africa - History and criticism --- Africa - Description and travel

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The papers in this collection deal with a cultural problem central to the study of the history of exploration: the editing and transmission of the texts in which explorers relate their experiences. The papers chart the transformation of the study of exploration writing from the genres of national epic and scientific reportage to the genre of cultural analysis. As well, they reflect on ongoing changes in our ideas about editorial procedures, literary genres, and cultural appropriation.

82.083 --- Criticism, Textual --- -Discoveries in geography --- -Travelers' writings --- -Travel writing --- -094:910.4 --- Travel --- Authorship --- Travelogues (Travelers' writings) --- Writings of travelers --- Literature --- Discoveries, Maritime --- Discovery and exploration --- Exploration and discovery --- Explorations in geography --- Exploring expeditions --- Geographical discoveries --- Geographical discovery --- Maritime discoveries --- Voyages and travels --- Explorers --- Geographical discoveries in literature --- Textual criticism --- Editing --- Teksteditie. Editiewetenschap --- Congresses --- Sources --- -Editing --- -Congresses --- History --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Ontdekkingsreizen. Reizen. Expedities. Reisverhalen --- Conferences - Meetings --- 094:910.4 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Ontdekkingsreizen. Reizen. Expedities. Reisverhalen --- 82.083 Teksteditie. Editiewetenschap --- Manuscripts --- Discoveries in geography --- Critique textuelle --- Manuscrits --- Découvertes géographiques --- Édition --- Codices --- Travelers' writings --- Travel writing --- 094:910.4 --- Sources&delete& --- Editing&delete& --- History&delete& --- Travelers' writings, English --- English travelers' writings --- English literature --- Books --- Nonbook materials --- Archival materials --- Charters --- Codicology --- Diplomatics --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Paleography --- Transmission of texts --- Criticism [Textual ] --- Epic poetry, Greek Criticism, Textual