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Place matters : gendered geography in Victorian women's travel books about Southeast Asia /
"Susan Morgan's study of materials and regions previously neglected in contemporary postcolonial studies begins with the transforming premise that "place matters." Concepts derived from writings about one area of the world cannot simply be transposed to another area, in some sort...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©1996.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Place Matters
- Ch. 2. Port of Entry: Colonial Singapore
- Ch. 3. The Holy Land of Victorian Science: Anna Forbes, with Henry Forbes and Alfred Russel Wallace in the Eastern Archipelago
- Ch. 4. Botany and Marianne North: Painting "A Garland about the Earth"
- Ch. 5. The Company as the Country: On the Malay Peninsula with Isabella Bird and Emily Innes
- Ch. 6. "One's Own State": Margaret Brooke, Harriette McDougall, and Sarawak
- Ch. 7. Anna Leonowens: Women Talking in the Royal Harem of Siam
- Ch. 8. Looking Behind and Ahead.