In the Victorian era, travel writing was a masculine discourse which affected the ways in which women wrote about their travels: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Essay, UOC, Malaysia

Question

1. In the Victorian era, travel writing was a masculine discourse which affected the ways in which women wrote about their travels. Discuss this statement with close reference to at least TWO readings from Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers (ed. Jane Robinson).
2. Discuss the notion of the traveller’s gaze in colonial travel writing. Refer closely to at least TWO readings from Adventures and Encounters: Europeans in South-East Asia (ed. J. M. Gullick).

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