Susan Morgan - Place matters: gendered geography in Victorian womens travel books about Southeast Asia

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Morgan, Susan, 1943
Place matters: gendered geography in Victorian women's travel books about Southeast Asia / Susan Morgan.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN o-8135-2248-x (cloth :alk. paper). -ISBN 0-8135-2249-8 (pbk. :alk. paper)
1. Travelers' writings, English-History and criticism. 2. English
prose literature-Women authors-History and criticism. 3. Women
travelers-Asia, Southeastern-History- 19th century - Historiog
raphy. 4. British-Travel-Asia, Southeastern-History-19th
century-Historiography. 5. Feminism and literature-Asia, South
eastern-History-19th century.6. English prose literature-19th
century-History and criticism.7. Women and literature-Great
Britain-History-19h century.I. Title.

PR788.T72M67 199695-21408

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Copyright 1996 by Susan Morgan
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Manufactured in the United States of America

Interior design and composition by Martin-Waterman Associates

Published by Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey

The sources of help I have received in writing this book are legion. There is Vassar College, which granted me the sabbatical leave during which I first went to Southeast Asia, and Barbara Page at Vassar, who reminded me before I went about the original writings of the woman featured in Anna and the King of Siam. There is the Huntington Library, which helped to fund my reading of the letters between Annie Fields and Anna Leonowens. At the Huntington I found a group of generous scholars, including Grace Ioppolo, Karen Langlois, Luther Luedtke, Karen Lystra, Barry Menikoff, Joseph Prabhu, and Betsy Truax, all of whom offered encouragement and information. At the University of Southern California, Peter Manning and Tim Gustafson helped me to continue my research at the Huntington. I found another group of warm and informative scholars, including Teresa Mangum, Deborah Morse, Richard Stein, Christine Thompson, Anca Vlasopolos, and Joyce Zonana, at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies meetings. My title owes a debt both to Richard Stein and to the work of Cornel West.