{"product_id":"female-poetics-of-empire-1","title":"Female Poetics of Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003eMany well-known \u003ci\u003emale\u003c\/i\u003e writers produced fictions about colonial spaces and discussed the advantages of realism over romance, and vice versa, in the ‘art of fiction’ debate of the 1880s; but how did \u003ci\u003efemale\u003c\/i\u003e writers contribute to colonial fiction?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume links fictional, non-fictional and pictorial representations of a colonial otherness with the late nineteenth-century artistic concerns about representational conventions and possibilities. The author explores these texts and images through the postcolonial framework of ‘exoticism’, arguing that the epistemological dilemma of a ‘self’ encountering an ‘other’ results in the interrelated predicament to find poetic modalities – mimetic, realistic and documentary on the one hand; romantic, fantastic and picturesque on the other – that befit an ‘exotic’ representation. Thus women writers did not only participate in the making of colonial fictions but also in the late nineteenth-century artistic debate about the nature of fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book maps the epistemological concerns of exoticism and of difference – self and other, home and away, familiarity and strangeness – onto the representational modes of realism and romance. The author focuses exclusively on female novelists, travel writers and painters of the turn-of-the-century exotic, and especially on neglected authors of academically under-researched genres such as the bestselling novel and the travelogue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54247788904792,"sku":"9781138377431","price":65.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138377431_6329d08c-3007-4782-aa41-27cf02606628.jpg?v=1770313529","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/female-poetics-of-empire-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}