Shirley Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 5147570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shirley Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shirley |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1848 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World
Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World." Studies in Travel Writing, 17(3), pp. 322–323
Colonialism and Gender in the East
Shirley Foster, Colonialism and Gender in the East: Representations of the Harem in the Writings of Women Travellers, The Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 34, Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing (2004), pp. 6-17
Colonialism and Gender in the East
Edward Said's analysis of the Orientalist discourse constructs a position of enunciation more questionable when the Western observer is female. Women were generally recipients of, rather than active participants in, colonialist projects. They accessed the Orient from a differently gendered perspective. Following Reina Lewis and Billie Melman, who suggest how female writers contested or subverted Orientalist discourse, this paper seeks to show tha…
Elizabeth Gaskell
This literary biographical study examines the life and works of the mid-Victorian woman novelist, Elizabeth Gaskell, whose popularity is now well established. It places her writing in the context of h
Mary Barton
Mary Barton is beautiful but has been born poor. Her father fights for the rights of his fellow workers, but Mary wants to make a better life for them both. She rashly decides to reject her lover Jem, a struggling engineer, in the hope of marrying the rich mill-owner's son Henry Carson and securing a safe future. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself hopelessly torn between them. She also d…
Elizabeth Gaskell
This literary biographical study examines the life and works of the mid-Victorian woman novelist, Elizabeth Gaskell, whose popularity is now well established. It places her writing in the context of h
Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World
Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World." Studies in Travel Writing, 17(3), pp. 322–323
Colonialism and Gender in the East
Edward Said's analysis of the Orientalist discourse constructs a position of enunciation more questionable when the Western observer is female. Women were generally recipients of, rather than active participants in, colonialist projects. They accessed the Orient from a differently gendered perspective. Following Reina Lewis and Billie Melman, who suggest how female writers contested or subverted Orientalist discourse, this paper seeks to show tha…
Mary Barton
Mary Barton is beautiful but has been born poor. Her father fights for the rights of his fellow workers, but Mary wants to make a better life for them both. She rashly decides to reject her lover Jem, a struggling engineer, in the hope of marrying the rich mill-owner's son Henry Carson and securing a safe future. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself hopelessly torn between them. She also d…
Elizabeth Gaskell
This literary biographical study examines the life and works of the mid-Victorian woman novelist, Elizabeth Gaskell, whose popularity is now well established. It places her writing in the context of h
Colonialism and Gender in the East
Shirley Foster, Colonialism and Gender in the East: Representations of the Harem in the Writings of Women Travellers, The Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 34, Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing (2004), pp. 6-17
Colonialism and Gender in the East
Edward Said's analysis of the Orientalist discourse constructs a position of enunciation more questionable when the Western observer is female. Women were generally recipients of, rather than active participants in, colonialist projects. They accessed the Orient from a differently gendered perspective. Following Reina Lewis and Billie Melman, who suggest how female writers contested or subverted Orientalist discourse, this paper seeks to show tha…
Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World
Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World." Studies in Travel Writing, 17(3), pp. 322–323
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