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Womens Travel Writings in Iberia

Volume Editors: Eroulla Demetriou, Jos Ruiz Mas and Mara Antonia Lpez-Burgos del Barrio
5 Volume Set: 1952pp: April 2013 978 1 85196 647 9: 234x156mm: 425/$750

Travel within Iberia was still a potentially dangerous activity in the years after the Peninsula War (180814) and most accounts of the time come from men who were there in a military capacity. Romantic poets and scholars helped to promote the idea of Spain and Portugal as heroic countries for their rebellion against the tyranny of Napoleonic France. The years between the end of the war and the coming of the railways saw a high point of Iberian travel writing which has never been equalled. The texts in this edition form a lively collection of first-hand accounts by women travellers from this era. All three authors share an (at best) ambivalent attitude towards the country they are visiting, from whose native charms they are shielded by an army of servants, a fervent Protestantism and, in the case of Mrs Ellis, by the Pyrenees. Nonetheless, their narratives contain much information on the appearance, customs and environment of the Spanish and Portuguese at a time of social and political upheaval. Texts are reproduced in facsimile with full scholarly apparatus Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, volume introductions and explanatory endnotes A consolidated index appears in the final volume

Contents
Volumes 1 & 2
Marianne Baillie, Lisbon in the Years 1821, 1822, and 1823 (1824)

Volumes 3 & 4
Lady Henrietta Chatterton, The Pyrenees with Excursions into Spain (1843)

Volume 5
Sarah Ellis, Summer and Winter in the Pyrenees ([1841])

Editorial Board
Volume editors: Eroulla Demetriou, University of Jan Jos Ruiz Mas, University of Granada Mara Antonia Lpez-Burgos del Barrio, University of Granada Series editors: Stephen Bending and Stephen Bygrave, University of Southampton

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Womens Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East

Volume Editors: Carl Thompson, Francesca Saggini, Lois Chaber and Betty Hagglund
Part I: 3 volume set: c.1200pp: April 2014 978 1 85196 139 9: 234x156mm: 275/$495 Part II: 3 volume set: c.1200pp: April 2015 978 1 84893 022 3: 234x156mm: 275/$495

Part I: The texts collected here show the variety of ways in which women writers shaped early nineteenth-century British attitudes to North Africa and the Middle East, and towards Muslim culture more generally. Tullys lively account offers a unique and intimate closeup of Libyan social life and customs, whilst Wilson introduced the Egyptian travelogue to a younger generation and Hofland skillfully provided a unified narrative to the entire eastern Ottoman empire. Taken together, they shed new light on British Orientalist discourse and the imperial rhetoric which shaped the Victorian high colonial era which followed. Part II: In 1821, Catherine Hutton published The Tour of Africa, a three-volume work covering the entire continent. Although the book is framed as a first-person narrative and told in the voice of the son of an English country gentleman of good family, it is in fact a compilation of existing travel accounts, including those of Pococke, Bruce, Denon, Barrow and Sonnini. Extracts from these accounts are woven together without attribution, creating a text which is both factual and fictional. A more complex text, therefore, than it initially appears, Huttons Tour raises challenging questions about intertextuality in nineteenth-century womens travel writing.

Texts are reproduced in facsimile with full scholarly apparatus Editorial features include a general introduction, volume introductions and explanatory endnotes A consolidated index appears in the final volume

Contents
Part I
Sarah Wilson, The Fruits of Enterprise: Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia (1825); Miss Tully, Narrative of a Ten Years Residence at Tripoli in Africa (1816); Barbara Hofland, The Young Pilgrim ... Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Asia Minor, Arabia Petra &c (1826)

Part II
Catherine Hutton, The Tour of Africa (181921)

Editorial Board
Volume editors: Lois Chaber, independent scholar Betty Hagglund, University of Birmingham Francesca Saggini, University of Tuscia Carl Thompson, Nottingham Trent University Series editors: Stephen Bending and Stephen Bygrave, University of Southampton

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