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Informationen zum Autor Mary Roberts Klappentext "This is an outstanding example of a truly interdisciplinary study, integrating painting, photography, travel narrative, and especially harem portraiture. Mary Roberts describes encounters between women--both British travelers and the women of Istanbul and Cairo harems--in a refreshing, innovative analysis of the historical and imaginary workings of harem imagery as forms of cross-cultural exchanges and interactions."--Julie F. Codell, editor of "Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British and Colonial Press" Zusammenfassung The notion of a cross-cultural dialogue has not figured in the analysis of harem paintings! largely because the western fantasy of the harem has been seen as the archetype for western appropriation of the Orient. This work reveals a body of harem imagery that was created through a dynamic process of cultural exchange. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Intimate Outsiders 1 Part 1: John Frederick Lewis's Harem Paintings Chapter One. The Languid Lotus-Eater 19 Chapter Two. "Mr. Lewis's Oriental paradises" 38 Part 2: British Women's Travelogues Chapter Three. Pleasures in Detail 59 Chapter Four. Being Seen 80 Chapter Five. Sartorial Adventures and Satiric Narratives 92 Part 3: Harem Portraiture Chapter Six. The Politics of Portraiture behind the Veil 109 Chapter Seven. Oriental Dreams 128 Epilogue 150 Notes 157 Selected Bibliography 177 Index 187
