A Victorian Traveler In The Middle East

Author : Nancy Micklewright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781351577908

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A Victorian Traveler in the Middle East by Nancy Micklewright Pdf

Juxtaposing the albums of Lady Brassey, an overlooked figure among Victorian women travelers, with Brassey's travel books, Nancy Micklewright takes advantage of a unique opportunity to examine the role of photography in the 1870s and 1880s in constructing ideas about place and empire. This study draws on a range of source material to investigate aspects of the Brassey collection. The book begins with an overview of Lady Brassey's life and projects, as well as an examination of issues relevant to subsequent discussions of the travel literature, the photographs, and the albums in which the photographs are assembled. Lady Brassey is next considered as a traveler and public figure, and the author gives an overview of Brassey's travel literature, placing her in her social and political context. Micklewright then considers the seventy volumes of photographs which comprise the Brassey album collection, taking an especially close look at the eight albums devoted to the Middle East. Analyzing the specific contents and structure of the albums, and the interplay of text and image within, she explores how the Brasseys constructed their presentation of the region. While confirming some earlier work about constructions of the Orient by the British during the time, this book offers a much more detailed and nuanced understanding of how photographic and literary constructions were related to individual experience and identity within a larger British identity. The first appendix explores the illustrative relationship between the photograph albums and Lady Brassey's travel books, yielding an understanding of the processes involved in transferring the photographic image to a printed one, at a particular moment in the development of book illustration. A second appendix lists the contents and named photographers of all seventy albums in the Brassey collection. All in all, Micklewright's study makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the complex and unstable socia

Author : R. Shechter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403982698

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Transitions in Domestic Consumption and Family Life in the Modern Middle East: Houses in Motion by R. Shechter Pdf

The volume focuses on three countries - Egypt, Israel, and Turkey (earlier the Ottoman Empire) - in the period between the mid-nineteenth and the early Twenty-first-centuries. It studies the consumption of homes and domesticity as changing processes in space and time. It further foregrounds research into the impact of economic, political, and socio-cultural transformations on the private life of individuals. Even more so, the volume advances the discussion on the processes of restructuring of self-identity and lifestyles via acts of consumption. The volume focuses on the market where producers and consumers meet, the state and the national movements with their respective ideologies and practices, the role of advertisers, but also the agency of individual and group choice. In addition, it discusses, in different ways, the close interrelations between the representation of home and domestic life, for example in journals, books, and photography, and the political economy of house consumption. Thus, this volume avoids the notion of linearity and 'progress' in the transition to modern lifestyles in favour of more subtle accounts of the different venues in which people in the Middle East restructure their most immediate and intimate surroundings.

Author : Geoffrey P. Nash
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0857288784

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Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger by Geoffrey P. Nash Pdf

An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works.

Author : Reina Lewis,Yasmine Nachabe Taan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350135222

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Fashioning the Modern Middle East by Reina Lewis,Yasmine Nachabe Taan Pdf

In the first book to address the critical role of the (un)dressed body in the formation of the modern Middle East, these essays unveil contemporary struggles over nation, gender, modernity and post-modernity. Contributions from leading interdisciplinary scholars, exploring gender representation, photography, dress and visual culture, recount the role of the visible elite body in campaigns for gender and social emancipation, dress histories concerning early nationalist women and men, and legal frameworks used by those who seek to control the movement of gendered bodies. The result is a rich picture of a historical period and cultural landscape which brings dress and visual culture back into historical narratives of the modern Middle East. Recognising multiple modernities, multiple imperialisms and diverse regional experiences of post-colonialism, Fashioning the Modern Middle East contains a range of theoretical frameworks invaluable to students of fashion studies, Middle Eastern studies, anthropology, photography and gender. Bringing forward new primary material and re-investigating extant sources from new perspectives, this is the essential introduction to the role of the dressed and undressed body in the formation of the modern Middle East.

Author : Philip Dodd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134726813

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The Art of Travel by Philip Dodd Pdf

First published in 1982. The Art of Travel is the first collection of critical essays to be devoted to British travel writing. It attempts to give a sense of the wealth of such writing, to map some of its forms and conventions and, implicitly, to claim a place for travel writing in any revised definition of literature. For this collection, travel includes sea voyages, European tours, commissioned enquiries into social conditions, and urban writing; travel writing ranges from works such as Sea and Sardinia by D.H. Lawrence whose status as a novelist guarantees his travel books some attention, through the essays and books of Victorian middle-class travellers into working-class London, to the work of V.S. Naipaul, a contemporary writer, who has increasingly preferred the travel book to the novel.

Author : Louis Charles Vaczek,Gail Buckland
Publisher : Boston : New York Graphic Society
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Middle East
ISBN : 0821211307

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Travelers in Ancient Lands by Louis Charles Vaczek,Gail Buckland Pdf

Author : Brian H. Murray,Mary Henes,Hughes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137543394

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Travel Writing, Visual Culture, and Form, 1760-1900 by Brian H. Murray,Mary Henes,Hughes Pdf

This collection reveals the variety of literary forms and visual media through which travel records were conveyed in the long nineteenth century, bringing together a group of leading researchers from a range of disciplines to explore the relationship between travel writing, visual representation and formal innovation.

Author : Thomas J. Assad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317269137

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Three Victorian Travellers by Thomas J. Assad Pdf

First published in 1964. This book is concerned with impressions of Arabic culture on the British before the First World War. More particularly, it is concerned with three Victorian travellers, all of whom knew Arabic culture first hand through their travels in the Middle and Near East, and especially in Arabia, Arabic North Africa, and the seaboard of the eastern Mediterranean. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Author : Billie Melman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349101573

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Women’s Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718–1918 by Billie Melman Pdf

In this highly acclaimed study, Billie Melman recovers the unwritten history of the European experience of the Middle-East during the colonial era. She focuses on the evolution of Orientalism and the reconstruction - through contact with other cultures - of gender and class. Beginning with the eighteenth century Billie Melman describes the many ways in which women looked at oriental people and places and developed a discourse which presented a challenge to hegemonic notions on the exotic and 'different'. Through her examination of the writings of famous feminist writers, travellers, ethnographers, missionaries, archaeologists and Biblical scholars, many of which are studied here for the first time, Billie Melman challenges traditional interpretations of Orientalism, placing gender at the forefront of colonial studies. 'This book provides a real extension to Edward Said's writing not only in the sense of challenging Edward Said's perspective, but also by adding a significant empirical and conceptual element to the discussion on orientalism. Those interested in women's history, in the cultural politics of cross-cultural encounters and in feminist or cultural theory will find much to engage them, inform them and challenge them in Melman's book.' - Joanna De Groot, Times Higher Education Supplement 'Using the perspectives of both gender and class Melman sets an alternative view of the Orient against that of Said... a much less monolithic and much more complex and heterogenous than that of Said' - Francis Robinson, Times Literary Supplement 'Women's Orients is an important contribution to our understanding of Orientalism. Melman's work is characterized by a fruitful bringing together of the skills of the historian with the sensitive reading of the British women writers...' - Catherine Hall, The Feminist Review 'An excellent work... This book is a must for anyone interested in women's history, both English and Middle Eastern. It is well written and well argued and effectively does what it promises to do' - Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot, The International History Review 'Women's Orients, a project of recovery and analysis, is an important consideration of European women traveller's writing on the Middle East. It provides a rich and detailed interpretation of a feminine version of the Orient' - Sherifa Zuhur, MESA Bulletin 'The book raises provocative issues and suggests complexities that deepen our understanding of colonial changes and representations' - Dorothy O.Helly, American Historical Review.

Author : Hilal Said Al-Hajri
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 3039105353

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British Travel-writing on Oman by Hilal Said Al-Hajri Pdf

This book focuses on the images of Oman in British travel writing from 1800 to 1970. In texts that vary from travel accounts to sailors' memoirs, complete travelogues, autobiographies, and letters, it looks at British representations of Oman as a place, people, and culture. The study discusses the current Orientalist debate suggesting alternatives to the dilemma of Orientalism. It also outlines the historical Omani-British relations, and examines the travel accounts written by several British merchants and sailors who stopped in Muscat and other Omani coastal cities in the nineteenth century. Another focus is with the works of travellers who penetrated the Interior of Oman such as James Wellsted and Samuel Miles, and the travellers who explored the southern Oman and the Empty Quarter. Finally the book looks at the last generation of British travellers who were in Oman from 1950 to 1970 employed either by oil companies or the Sultan Said bin Taimur. The gap of knowledge that this book undertakes to fill is that most of the texts under discussion have not been studied in any context.

Author : Marilyn Booth
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780822348696

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Harem Histories by Marilyn Booth Pdf

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the harem as it was imagined, represented, and experienced in Middle Eastern and North African societies, and by visitors to those societies.

Author : Teresa Heffernan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442624924

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Veiled Figures by Teresa Heffernan Pdf

Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, public debates about Islam and the veil have become increasingly divisive. Yet few acknowledge that this fascination with veiling goes back more than three centuries. In Veiled Figures, Teresa Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations is perpetuated by the rhetoric of veiling and unveiling. Drawing on travel narratives, harem literature, and other stories, Heffernan argues that women’s bodies have been used to exacerbate the divide between religion and reason in the eighteenth century, the Islamic umma and the Western nation in the nineteenth, and Islamism and global capitalism in the contemporary period. Through the study of the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Bowman Dodd, Demetra Vaka Brown, Zeyneb Hanoum, and others, Heffernan’s book demonstrates the ways in which these works complicate and interrupt these divides, opening up new opportunities for a more constructive dialogue between East and West.

Author : Lisa McCracken Lacy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786739711

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Lady Anne Blunt in the Middle East by Lisa McCracken Lacy Pdf

Lady Anne Blunt was a woman ahead of her time. After marrying the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt in 1869, the pair travelled extensively in the Middle East, developing an especial fondness for the region and its people. In this book, Lisa Lacy explores the life, travels and political ideas of Lady Anne. With a broad knowledge of the Arab world, she challenged prevailing assumptions and, as a result of her aristocratic heritage, exerted strong influence in British political circles. Her extensive journeys in the Mediterranean region, North Africa, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Iraq and Persia formed the basis of her knowledge about the Middle East. She pursued an intimate knowledge of Bedouin life in Arabia, the town culture of Syria and Mesopotamia and the politics of nationalism in Egypt. Her husband, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, gained a reputation as an anti-imperialist political activist. Lacy shows that Lady Anne was her husband's partner in marriage, politics and travel and exerted strong influence not only on his ideas, but on the ideas of the British political elite of the era.

Author : Shahin Kuli Khan Khattak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857713780

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Islam and the Victorians by Shahin Kuli Khan Khattak Pdf

How did the Victorians perceive Muslims in the British Empire and beyond? How were these perceptions propagated by historians and scholars, poets, dramatists and fiction writers of the period? For the first time, Shahin Kuli Khan Khattak brings to life Victorian Britain's conceptions and misconceptions of the Muslim World using a thorough investigation of varied cultural sources of the period. She discovers the prevailing representation of Muslims and Islam in the two major spheres of British influence - India and the Ottoman Empire - was reinforced by reoccurring themes: through literature and entertainment the public saw 'the Mahomedan' as the 'noble savage', a perception reinforced through travel writing and fiction of the 'exotic east' and the 'Arabian Nights'. "Islam and the Victorians" will be an important contribution to understanding the apprehensions and misapprehensions about Islam in the nineteenth century, providing a fascinating historical backdrop to many of today's concerns.

Author : Peter Hulme,Tim Youngs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521786525

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The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing by Peter Hulme,Tim Youngs Pdf

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