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A female poetics of empire [electronic resource] : from Eliot to Woolf / Julia Kuehn.
- 作者： Kuehn, Julia.
- 其他題名：
- Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;
- 出版： New York ;London : Routledge 2014.
- 叢書名： Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;11
- 主題： English literature--History and criticism.--19th century , English literature--Women authors--History and criticism. , Women and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century. , Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.--Orient , Orientalism in literature. , Exoticism in literature. , Orientalism in art--Great Britain. , Exoticism in art--Great Britain. , Electronic books
- ISBN： 9781315884073 (e-book : PDF)
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- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- 系統號： 005235266 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
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.
內容註
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.