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Informationen zum Autor Lorraine Sterry returned to post-graduate study at La Trobe University in 1998 after a successful teaching career in secondary education. In 2000 she completed a Graduate Diploma in Humanities and Social Sciences (Asian Studies), and in 2007 received her Ph.D from La Trobe for her research into Victorian women travellers in Meiji Japan, which forms the basis of the present volume. Klappentext This volume complements other published works about travel by nineteenth-century women writers by locating and creating 'space' for Japan which is missing within recent critical discourses on travel writing. It examines the narratives of women writers who travelled to Japan from the mid-1850s onwards, when Japan was first opened to the West, and became a highly desirable travel destination for decades thereafter. Many women travelled in this period, and although most left no record of their journeys, enough did to form a discrete body of literature spanning more than fifty years - from the end of the feudal Tokugawa era to the rise of Meiji Japan as a world power. Their narratives about Japan occupy a culturally significant place, not only in the genre of Victorian female travel writing, but in Victorian travel writing per se. The writers who are the subject of this book are divided into two groups: those who were 'travellers-by-intent', namely, Anna D'A, Alice Frere, Annie Brassey, Isabella Bird and Marie Stopes, and those who 'travelled-by-default' as the wives of diplomats, namely Mrs Pemberton Hodgson, Mrs Hugh Fraser and Baroness Albert d'Anethan. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Map of Japan; Introduction; PART ONE: The literature of travel; 1 Victorian women travel writers and the positioning of Japan in the genre of travel; 2 Japan in the Victorian imagination; PART TWO: Travellers-by-default; 3 The diplomatic service and the position of the wives of diplomats; 4 Mrs Christopher Pemberton Hodgson; 5 Mrs Hugh Fraser; 6 Baroness Albert d'Anethan; 7 The japanese novels! short stories and poetry of Mrs Fraser and Baroness d'Anethan; PART THREE: Travellers-by-intent; 8 AnnaD'A; 9 Alice M. Frere; 10 Annie Brassey; 11 Isabella Bird; 12 Marie Stopes; Afterword: The end of the Meiji period and beyond; Bibliography; Index ...
