A Victorian Traveler in the Middle East: The Photography and Travel Writing of Annie Lady Brassey

ISBN-13: 9781138258471 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str.

Nancy Micklewright

Opis

Juxtaposing the albums of Lady Brassey, an overlooked figure among Victorian women travelers, with Brassey's travel books, Nancy Micklewright takes advantage of a unique opportunity to examine the role of photography in the 1870s and 1880s in constructing ideas about place and empire. The book includes an overview of Lady Brassey's life and projects, as well as an examination of issues relevant to subsequent discussions of the travel literature, the photographs, and the albums in which the photographs are assembled. It offers a detailed and nuanced understanding of how photographic and literary constructions were related to individual experience and identity within a larger British identity. All in all, Micklewright's study makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the complex and unstable social, political and imperialist discourses in the nineteenth century.

Recenzje

’Nancy Micklewright's first book brings together a body of rich and varied source material to produce a nuanced view of the production, consumption, and uses of photography in the nineteenth century... As the first book that brings together Lady Brassey's photographs and travel writings, it also intoduces the figure of a victorian woman who had been overlooked.’ Visual Resources

Spis treści

Contents: Foreword; Preface; Annie Brassey and mid-19th century photography; Annie Lady Brassey; The Brassey albums and the history of photography in the Middle East; Photograph albums as constructions of realities; The Middle East and the photographic record; Afterword; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Nancy Micklewright is a Program Officer at the Getty Grant Program in Los Angeles, California. Trained as an Islamicist, she taught in the History in Art Department at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, before joining the Grant Program.