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Interpreting the Orient: travellers in Egypt and the Near East

Interpreting the Orient: travellers in Egypt and the Near East
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ISBN 086372258X (hbk.)
9780863722585 (hbk.)
Title Interpreting the Orient : travellers in Egypt and the Near East / edited by Paul and Janet Starkey
Publisher Reading : Ithaca Press, 2001
Physical desc. vi, 277 p. ; ill. (b&w) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-268) and index.
Contents Introduction / Paul and Janet Starkey -- About-face: Sir David Wilkie's portrait of 'Mehmet Ali' / Emily M. Weeks -- Carl Haag 1820-1915: fact or fantasy? / Cornelia Oelwein -- John Frederick Lewis: 'in knowledge of the Orientals quite one of themselves' / Briony Llewellyn and Charles Newton -- William Holman Hunt's visits to Egypt: passion, prejudice and truth to nature / Judith Bronkhurst -- David Urquhart and the role of travel literature in the introduction of Turkish baths to Victorian England / Nebahat Avcıoğlu -- J. Wolff and H. Stern: missionaries in Yemen / Aviva Klein-Franke -- The Copts of Egypt: neither Christian nor Egyptian? / Hoda Gindi -- Gender politics in a colonial context: Victorian women's accounts of Egypt / Sahar Sobhi Abdel-Hakim -- The image of nineteenth-century Cairo as a medieval city in Kinglake's Eōthen / Loubna A. Youssef -- 'While I was in Egypt, I finished Dr. Thorne' / Nadia Gindy -- On translating The Englishwoman in Egypt in to Arabic / Azza Kararah -- Amelia Edwards: from novelist to Egyptologist / Patricia O'Neill -- Amelia Edwards, Jennie Lane and Egypt / Brenda E. Moon -- Oriental motifs in the poetry of Nikolay Gumilev / Marianna Taymanova -- 'Ah! that the desert were my dwelling place': the romance of Persia in the early writings of Gertrude Bell / Katharine Chubbuck -- Orientalism and gender: the condition and status of women in Morocco / Amy J. Johnson.
Subject Travelers -- Egypt -- History
Travelers -- Middle East -- History
Travelers
Egypt -- Description and travel
Middle East -- Description and travel
Egypt -- Civilization -- 19th century
Middle East -- Civilization -- 19th century
Added name(s) Starkey, Paul 1947-
Starkey, Janet 1948-
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