Siegel, Kristi

Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women's Travel Writing

Acknowledgments ix Introduction INTERSECTIONS: WOMEN'S TRAVEL AND THEORY Kristi Siegel 1(14) Part One: Gender Chapter One THE GAZE OF THE VICTORIAN WOMAN TRAVELER: SPECTACLES AND PHENOMENA Ruth Y. Jenkins 15(16) Chapter Two LADY MARY MONTAGU AND THE "BOUNDARIES" OF EUROPE Sukanya Banerjee 31(24) Chapter Three WOMEN'S TRAVEL AND THE RHETORIC OF PERIL: IT IS SUICIDE TO BE ABROAD Kristi Siegel 55(18) Chapter Four THE DAUGHTERS OF THELMA AND LOUISE: NEW? AESTHETICS OF THE ROAD Jessica Enevold 73(24) Chapter Five WOMEN WRITERS AND THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE: PASSING PENELOPE PITSTOP Rachel A. Jennings 97(26) Part Two: Genre Chapter Six FRANCES TROLLOPE'S AMERICA AND ANNA LEONOWENS'S SIAM: QUESTIONABLE TRAVEL AND PROBLEMATIC WRITING Chu-Chueh Cheng 123(44) Chapter Seven NANCY PRINCE AND HER GOTHIC ODYSSEY: A VEILED LADY Sarah Brusky 167(14) Chapter Eight ZILPHA ELAW'S SERIAL DOMESTICITY: AN UNSENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Rosetta R. Haynes 181(12) Chapter Nine WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING AND THE POLITICS OF LOCATION: SOMEWHERE IN-BETWEEN Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson 193(16) Chapter Ten THE PROBLEM OF NARRATIVE AUTHORITY: CATHERINE ODDIE AND KATE KARKO Corinne Fowler 209(16) Part Three: Identity Chapter Eleven A PROTESTANT CRITIQUE OF CATHOLICISM: FRANCES CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY MEXICO Linda Ledford-Miller 225(10) Chapter Twelve IDENTITY IN ROSAMOND LAWRENCE'S INDIAN EMBERS: "I CANNOT SOMEHOW FIND MYSELF" Terri A. Hasseler 235(28) Chapter Thirteen AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY ABROAD: THE TRAVELS OF NANCY PRINCE Kristin Fitzpatrick 263(16) Chapter Fourteen ALEXANDRA DAVID-NÉEL'S HOME IN THE HIMALAYAS: WHERE THE HEART LIES Margaret McColley 279(14) Chapter Fifteen A FEMINIST LENS FOR BINX BOLLING'S JOURNEY IN THE MOVIEGOER: TRAVELING TOWARD WHOLENESS Kathleen Scullin 293(16) List of Contributors 309(4) Index 313