CONTENTS
List of plates = ⅸ
Acknowledgements = xiii
Introduction : making connections = 1
1 Race femininity representation = 12
Said's Orientalism and his critics = 15
Problems with the 'death of the Author' = 22
Writers, readers and critics = 30
Women representing the other : Villette = 35
2 Professional opportunities for women in art and literature = 53
The separate spheres : problems of a professional identity = 53
Opportunities for women in art = 56
Opportunities for women in literature = 67
Nation, empire and culture = 73
3 Gender, genre and nation : Henriette Browne, the making of a woman Orientalist artist = 85
The reception of Browne's religious works in Britain and France = 86
Making a name : the establishment of Browne's artistic identity in Britain = 97
Orientalism in the visual arts = 109
4 'Only women should go to Turkey' : Henriette Browne and the female Orientalist gaze = 127
Critical responses to Browne's Harem Interiors, 1861 = 129
Using experience to challenge stereotypes : women write about the harem = 144
The female gaze = 161
From the subjective to the objective : ethnographic discourses of race and nation = 171
The problematic authority of the female Orientalist gaze = 178
5 Aliens at home and Britons abroad : George Eliot's Orientalization of Jews in Daniel Deronda = 191
Evolution, organicism, fiction and Jews : contemporary responses to Daniel Deronda = 193
Daniel Deronda and the formation of an AngloJewish identity = 201
George Eliot and Jewish sources = 207
Shifting stereotypes : origins, heredity, identity = 212
Distance and difference : the problems of reading Daniel Deronda = 221
Afterword : Gendering Orientalism = 236
Select bibliography = 242
Index = 259
