Research Catalog
Victorian women travellers in Meiji Japan : discovering a new land
- Title
- Victorian women travellers in Meiji Japan : discovering a new land / Lorraine Sterry.
- Author
- Sterry, Lorraine.
- Publication
- Folkestone : Global Oriental, 2009.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DS809 .S84 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 328 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm
- Summary
- This title 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Note
- Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--La Trobe University, 2007.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-321) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Literature of Travel -- 1. Victorian Women Travel Writers and the Positioning of Japan in the Genre of Travel -- 2. Japan in the Victorian Imagination -- Pt. 2. Travellers-By-Default -- 3. Diplomatic Service and the Position of the Wives of Diplomats -- 4. Mrs Christopher Pemberton Hodgson (Japan: 1859- 61) -- 5. Mrs Hugh Fraser (Japan: 1889- 94) -- 6. Baroness Albert d'Anethan (Japan: 1893-1906) -- 7. Japanese Novels, Short Stories and Poetry of Mrs Fraser and Baroness d'Anethan -- Pt. 3. Travellers-By-Intent -- 8. Anna D'A (Japan: 25 May to end July 1862) -- 9. Alice M. Frere (Japan: A few weeks from 12 August 1866) -- 10. Annie Brassey (Japan: 30 January to 19 February 1877) -- 11. Isabella Bird (Japan: 21 May to 22 December 1878) -- 12. Marie Stopes (Japan: 6 August 1907 to 24 January 1909) -- Afterword: The End of the Meiji Period and Beyond.
- ISBN
- 9781905246731
- 1905246730
- OCLC
- ocn195742976
- 195742976
- SCSB-14461324
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library