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100 1 $aMorgan, Susan,$d1943-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79104185
245 10 $aPlace matters :$bgendered geography in Victorian women's travel books about Southeast Asia /$cSusan Morgan.
260 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. :$bRutgers University Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axi, 345 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 307-332) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tPlace Matters --$gCh. 2.$tPort of Entry: Colonial Singapore --$gCh. 3.$tThe Holy Land of Victorian Science: Anna Forbes, with Henry Forbes and Alfred Russel Wallace in the Eastern Archipelago --$gCh. 4.$tBotany and Marianne North: Painting "A Garland about the Earth" --$gCh. 5.$tThe Company as the Country: On the Malay Peninsula with Isabella Bird and Emily Innes --$gCh. 6.$t"One's Own State": Margaret Brooke, Harriette McDougall, and Sarawak --$gCh. 7.$tAnna Leonowens: Women Talking in the Royal Harem of Siam --$gCh. 8.$tLooking Behind and Ahead.
520 $aSusan 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 of global theoretical move. Moreover, place in the discourse of Victorian imperialism is a matter of gendered as well as geographic terms.
520 8 $aTaking up works by Anna Forbes and Marianne North on the Malay Archipelago, by Margaret Brooke and Harriette McDougall on Sarawak, by Isabella Bird and Emily Innes on British Malaya, by Anna Leonowens on Siam, Morgan also makes extensive use of theorists whose work on imperialism in Southeast Asia is unfamiliar to most American academics.
520 8 $aThis vivid examination of a different region and different writings emphasizes that in Victorian literature there was no monolithic imperialist location, authorial or geographic. The very notion of a "colony" or an "imperial presence" in Southeast Asia is problematic. Morgan is concerned with marking the intersections of particular Victorian imperial histories and constructions of subjectivity. She argues that specific places in Southeast Asia have distinctive, and differing, masculine imperial rhetorics.
520 8 $aIt is within these specific rhetorical contexts that women's writings, including their moments of critique, can be read.
650 0 $aTravelers' writings, English$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112987
650 0 $aEnglish prose literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103186
650 0 $aWomen travelers$zSoutheast Asia$xHistory$y19th century$xHistoriography.
650 0 $aBritish$xTravel$zSoutheast Asia$xHistory$y19th century$xHistoriography.
650 0 $aFeminism and literature$zSoutheast Asia$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aEnglish prose literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103106
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113596
650 0 $aPlace (Philosophy) in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005189
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