Table of contents for Gender, genre, and identity in women's travel writing / edited by Kristi Siegel.

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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction
	Intersections
	Kristi Siegel	1
Part One: Gender
	Chapter One
	The Gaze of the Victorian Woman Traveler:
	Spectacles and Phenomena 
	Ruth Y. Jenkins	9
	Chapter Two
	Passing Penelope Pitstop: Contemporary Women Writers
	and the Internal Combustion Engine
	Rachel A. Jennings	25
	Chapter Three
	The Daughters of Thelma and Louise: New? Aesthetics 
	the Road
	Jessica Enevold Madesdotter	49
	Chapter Four
	Women's Travel and the Rhetoric of Peril: 
	It's Suicide to be Abroad
	Kristi Siegel	73
Part Two: Genre
	Chapter Five
	Revisiting Frances Trollope's America and Anna 
	Leonowens's Siam: Questionable Travel and 
	Problematic Writing
	Chu-Chueh Cheng	87
	Chapter Six
	Women's Travel Writing and the Politics of Location:
	Somewhere In-Between
	Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson	129
	Chapter Seven
	The Problem of Narrative Authority:
	Catherine Oddy and Kate Karko
	Corinne Fowler	145
	Chapter Eight
	Lady Mary Montagu at the Edges of "Europe":
	"I am now not into a New World"
	Sukanya Banerjee	159
	Chapter Nine
	Zilpha Elaw's Serial Domesticity:
	An Unsentimental Journey
	Rosetta R. Haynes	183
Part Three: Identity
	Chapter Ten
	A Protestant Critique of Catholicism: Frances Calder>n de la
	Barca in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
	Linda Ledford-Miller	195
	Chapter Eleven
	Binx Bolling's Journey in The Moviegoer: "The movies are
	on to the search, but they screw it up"
	Kathleen Scullin	205
	Chapter Twelve
	Identity in Rosamond Lawrence's Indian Embers:
	"I cannot somehow find myself"
	Terri A. Hasseler	221
	Chapter Thirteen
	Nancy Prince and her Gothic Odyssey:
	A Veiled Lady
	Sarah Brusky	249
	Chapter Fourteen
	American National Identity Abroad:
	The Travels of Nancy Prince
	Kristin Fitzpatrick	263
	Chapter Fifteen
	Alexandra David-N,el's Home in the Himalayas:
	Where the Heart Lies
	Margaret McColley	279
	
Notes on Contributors	291
Index	293




Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Travelers' writings, English History and criticism, Women travelers Great Britain Biography History and criticism, Women travelers United States Biography History and criticism, English prose literature Women authors History and criticism, American prose literature Women authors History and criticism, Travelers' writings, American History and criticism, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Sex role in literature, Travel in literature, Literary form