Abstract
A book by a young lady, who probably went to India like most young ladies, to procure a husband instead of information, is a literary curiosity which we are not disposed to overlook.
Highlights
This article focuses on Maria Graham’s Journal of a Residence in India (1812) in order to examine the role of mobility in the configuration of difference in the British Empire at the r
Focusing on the content and context of Maria Graham’s Journal of a Residence in India, this article explores the role of mobility in the configuration of difference in the British Empire at the turn of the nineteenth century
Few historians of the British Empire have interrogated the er way that mobility discursively constituted the meaning of bodies in relationship to space
Summary
This article focuses on Maria Graham’s Journal of a Residence in India (1812) in order to examine the role of mobility in the configuration of difference in the British Empire at the r. Focusing on the content and context of Maria Graham’s Journal of a Residence in India, this article explores the role of mobility in the configuration of difference in the British Empire at the turn of the nineteenth century. Travel writing was available to educated women in a way that history, philosophy or science was not, and as such it represents a fundamental means by which British women could intervene in the construction of knowledge and the configuration of identity in space.. Travel writing was available to educated women in a way that history, philosophy or science was not, and as such it represents a fundamental means by which British women could intervene in the construction of knowledge and the configuration of identity in space.9 It is no surprise, that Graham chose this genre to begin her literary career, or that it was r. Fo his wife and pleasant home, where peace and happiness loved to dwell’.15 In direct relationship to gender and travel writing, Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), critiqued women’s ‘frivolous’ and aimless travel, and placed it in contrast to men’s directed journeying, with an aim and purpose in mind. er
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