ABSTRACT
This book studies the exclusive refractive perspectives of British women who took up the twin challenges of travel and writing when Britain was establishing itself as the greatest empire on earth. Contributors explore the ways in which travel writing has defined women’s engagement with Empire and British identity, and was inextricably linked with the issue of identity formation. With a capacious geographical canvas, this volume examines the multifaceted relations and negotiations of British women travellers in a range of different imperial contexts across continents from America, Africa, Europe to Australia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|67 pages
On the Continent, Framing ‘Britishness’
chapter 2|16 pages
Views of an ‘Overthrown’ Kingdom
Britishness and Otherness in The Spanish Journal of Elizabeth Holland
chapter 3|18 pages
Roman Monuments, Ruins and Remains
British Women Travellers’ Perception of Historical Heritage in the Early 19th Century
chapter 4|16 pages
On Terrains of the Other Empire
Mary Holderness’s Account of Her Residence in Early 19th-Century Crimea
part II|100 pages
In the Colonies, Defining ‘Non-British’
chapter 6|14 pages
Creating a ‘More Popular Work’
The Lasting Influence of Maria Graham’s Journal of a Residence in India (1812)
chapter 9|20 pages
‘Servant of the Cross’
Identity, Travel and Colonial Culture in the Letters of Mary Moffat in South Africa
chapter 10|15 pages
An ‘Honorary Man’ in the Holy Land?
Mary Eliza Rogers, Gender and British Protestant Imperialism
part III|52 pages
In the Settler Colonies, Furthering the ‘Other’ British
chapter 11|16 pages
‘English, Yet Essentially Un-English’
Female Constructions of Imperial Belonging in Melbourne, 1850–1870
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chapter 12|15 pages
In Search of the Romantic Aesthetic
British Women Travellers in 19th-Century America
chapter 13|19 pages
Carriage and Canoe
The Material Vessels of Anna Brownell Jameson’s Voyage in Upper Canada
