| 书目名称 | Imperial Women Writers in Victorian India |
| 副标题 | Representing Colonia |
| 编辑 | Éadaoin Agnew |
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| 概述 | Draws from a wealth of sources such as letters, memoirs, contemporary and primers.Re-energizes the recuperation of women‘s travel writing.Draws upon feminist and post-colonial criticism to suggest tha |
| 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
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| 描述 | This book is about Victorian women’s representations of colonial life in India. These accounts contributed to imperial rule by exemplifying an idealized middle-class femininity and attesting to the Anglicisation of the subcontinent. Writers described familiarly feminine modes of experience, focusing on the domestic environment, household management, the family, hobbies and pastimes, romance and courtship and their busy social lives. However, this book reveals the extent to which their lives in India bore little resemblance to their lives in Britain and suggests that the acclaimed transportation of the home culture was largely an ideological construct iterated by women writers in the service of the Raj. In this way, they subverted the constraints of Victorian gender discourses and were part of a growing proto-feminism.. |
| 出版日期 | Book 2017 |
| 关键词 | Nineteenth Century; Fiction; Letters; Memoirs; Life Writing |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33195-9 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-81450-6 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-33195-9Series ISSN 2634-6494 Series E-ISSN 2634-6508 |
| issn_series | 2634-6494 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 |
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