A Female Poetics of Empire

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Focusing on the late nineteenth century, this volume examines the interplay of fiction, non-fiction, and visual art in portraying colonial otherness through the lens of exoticism. The author investigates how female novelists, travel writers, and painters navigated themes of self and other, familiarity and strangeness, within the representational frameworks of realism and romance. By mapping epistemological concerns onto these artistic expressions, the book delves into the complexities of representation during a transformative period in art and literature.