Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and index.
Contents
All red routes : text, performance, and empire -- Line of sight : narration and the spectator in Isabella Bird's The golden Chersonese -- Role-play and Florence Dixie's In the land of misfortune -- Romance, reality, and letter writing in Kate Marsden's On sledge and horseback to outcase Siberian lepers -- "In the choice of their dress" : self-representation and the nineteenth-century woman traveler.