A Female Poetics of Empire
From Eliot to Woolf
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 23 October 2013
- ISBN 9780415712415
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages266 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 650 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 Halftones, black & white 0
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Short description:
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?. This book maps the epistemological concerns of exoticism and of difference ? self and other, home and away, familiarity and strangeness ? onto the representational modes of realism and romance, focusing exclusively on female novelists, travel writers and painters of the turn-of-the-century exotic.
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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? encountering an ?other? results in the interrelated predicament to find poetic modalities ? mimetic, realistic and documentary on the one hand; romantic, fantastic and picturesque on the other ? that befit an ?exotic? representation. Thus women writers did not only participate in the making of colonial fictions but also in the late nineteenth-century artistic debate about the nature of fiction.
This book maps the epistemological concerns of exoticism and of difference ? self and other, home and away, familiarity and strangeness ? onto the representational modes of realism and romance. The author focuses exclusively on female novelists, travel writers and painters of the turn-of-the-century exotic, and especially on neglected authors of academically under-researched genres such as the bestselling novel and the travelogue.
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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 7. Infelicities: Representing Hot Love in the Popular Women?s Desert Romance 8. Modernist Exoticism: The Voyage Out and In. Conclusion.
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