Literature & Literary Studies
Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts
Gendered narratives of encounter
by Claudia Capancioni, Julia Kuehn, Mariaconcetta Costantini
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Re-examining nineteenth-century Eastscontributes novel approaches to gendered and gendering fictions and travel writing in and of the cultural-geographical-ideological contexts surrounding nineteenth-century Easts. It examines underexplored stories of travel and narratives of encounter to reconsider the western allure of travelling to the Easts - from the Balkans to the Middle and Far East, through a range of diverse critical approaches. It discusses writers - travellers, novelists, and short-story writers - who authored texts based on their varied experiences in eastern lands. It also analyses how views of eastern places became a rich source of material for identity formations related to Empire but also discussions about masculinity and femininity at 'home'.
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Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo [DRC], Congo, Republic of the, Costa Rica, Ivory Coast, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Hongkong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, China, Macedonia [FYROM], Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Reunion, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Sudan, Cyprus, Palestine, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Liechtenstein, Azerbaijan, Jamaica, Kyrgyzstan, Dominican Republic, Myanmar, Monaco
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Three decades after the ground-breaking work of critics like Sara Mills, Billie Melman and Reina Lewis, Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts brings together international scholars to reassess and revitalise the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century 'East' or, rather, 'Easts' as the editors suggest in this volume. The chapters renew an interest in issues of representation as they cover a century of literary imaginaries and non-fictional accounts about Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, India, China, South-East Asia, and Japan. More importantly, they draw on a wide range of thematic and conceptual foci: landscape, race, identity, politics, social class, domestic life, science, religion and visual arts. Drawing on various critical and methodological approaches - from colonial discourse analysis to postcolonial theory, poetics to the geohumanities, theories of the body and affect to identity politics - the chapters study and critically update formations of gender in relation to sites and lives considered 'Other' and 'East' of the nineteenth-century British world. Thanks to its provocative critical framework, its analyses of lesser-studied authors and its innovative, interdisciplinary reconceptualisation of the Easts, the volume moves forward a debate that has ongoing social and critical relevance.
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Three decades after the ground-breaking work of critics like Sara Mills, Billie Melman and Reina Lewis, Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts brings together international scholars to reassess and revitalise the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century 'East' or, rather, 'Easts' as the editors suggest in this volume. The chapters renew an interest in issues of representation as they cover a century of literary imaginaries and non-fictional accounts about Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, India, China, South-East Asia, and Japan. More importantly, they draw on a wide range of thematic and conceptual foci: landscape, race, identity, politics, social class, domestic life, science, religion and visual arts. Drawing on various critical and methodological approaches - from colonial discourse analysis to postcolonial theory, poetics to the geohumanities, theories of the body and affect to identity politics - the chapters study and critically update formations of gender in relation to sites and lives considered 'Other' and 'East' of the nineteenth-century British world. Thanks to its provocative critical framework, its analyses of lesser-studied authors and its innovative, interdisciplinary reconceptualisation of the Easts, the volume moves forward a debate that has ongoing social and critical relevance.
Author Biography
Claudia Capancioni is Professor of English Literature at Lincoln Bishop University, UK Mariaconcetta Costantini is Professor of English Literature at G. d'Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara, Italy Julia Kuehn is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date April 2026
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526184429 / 1526184427
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPrint PDF
- Pages296
- ReadershipGeneral/trade; College/higher education; Professional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 X 138 mm
- Biblio NotesDerived from Proprietary 6403
- SeriesInterventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
- Reference Code17125
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