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Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts

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This collectionreassesses and revitalises the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century ‘Easts’. It offers novel conceptualisations and methodologies to fictions and travel ...
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  • 21 April 2026
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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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Price: $140.00
Pages: 304
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
Publication Date: 21 April 2026
ISBN: 9781526184429
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, Gender studies: women and girls
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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

Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts: an introduction – Claudia Capancioni, Mariaconcetta Costantini and Julia Kuehn

Section 1: EASTERN EUROPE AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
1 An Orientalist view of Eastern Europe at the end of the long nineteenth century: analysing Baroness Orczy’s autobiographical novel, A Son of the People – Agnes Strickland-Pajtok
2 Mary Edith Durham in Albania: rethinking identity across geographic, generic and gender boundaries – Mariaconcetta Costantini
3 Ottoman women in transition in Mary Adelaide Walker’s Eastern Life and Scenery – Elisabetta Marino

Section 2: EGYPT
4 Lucie Duff Gordon’s palimpsestuous views of Egypt – Claudia Capancioni
5 ‘Transported bodily into the Arabian Nights’: Janet Ross’s Egyptian fascination in The Fourth Generation: Reminiscences (1912) – Claudia Zilletti
6 Trollope’s unprotected females in the East – Kristine Swenson

Section 3: INDIA
7 Transnational encounters in Anglophone Indian women’s writing – Éadaoin Agnew
8 The women of Reynolds’s ‘East’: The Sepoys, or Highland Jessie – Rebecca Nesvet
9 ‘Be still and listen’: encountering and understanding the East in Margaret Harkness’s writings – Greta Perletti
10 Marriage and female self-abnegation and heroism in Flora Annie Steel’s ‘Uma Himavutee’ and ‘The Sorrowful Hour’ (1897) – Graziella Stringos & Mireille Vila

Section 4: THE MIDDLE AND FAR EAST
11 New nineteenth-century perspectives on the Middle East through the travelogues of Italian women writers Amalia Nizzoli and Cristina Trivulzio di Belgioioso – Giulia Nonno
12 Dangerous encounters: British women travellers and unwanted proximity in late nineteenth-century China – Silvia Granata
13 ‘I am beginning to enter the joys of a naturalist’: Anna Forbes’s explorations of the Malay Archipelago – Laurence Talairach
14 Lessons in loyalty: gender, kinship and politics in Mary Crawford Fraser’s Japan – Helena Esser

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