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An 'Honorary Man' in the Holy Land?: Mary Eliza Rogers, Gender and British Protestant Imperialism
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Cultural Sciences. Kings Coll London, UK;Edge Hill Univ, UK. (Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8470-175x
2020 (English)In: British women travellers: Empire and beyond, 1770-1870 / [ed] Dutta, S, Routledge, 2020, p. 172-186Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Mary Eliza Rogers (1827–1910) was an artist, writer and traveller from an English middle-class family; her best-known work was Domestic Life in Palestine (1862), an account of four years (1855–1859) spent living and travelling in Palestine alongside her brother, a British vice-consul. Domestic Life is a valuable and often-cited source of information on mid-19th -century Palestine, particularly on domestic settings inaccessible to male travellers. But historian James Gelvin’s attitude to Rogers is typical, seeing her descriptions as mediated by Victorian orientalism: ‘Rogers found in Palestine what she had come to find: the Holy Land, unchanged since the time of Jesus’. This is certainly true, but this chapter argues that close reading of Rogers’ work, informed by Debbie Lisle’s notion of the female traveller as ‘honorary man’, reveals instead the strongly imperial nature of Rogers’ viewpoint and of her interactions with many Palestinians. To see Rogers’ work only through the lens of discursive orientalisms obscures her very real role in reinforcing her brother’s imperial presence, and the ways in which adopting a quasi-masculine position also allowed her to lay claim to knowledge and authority within Victorian paradigms of travel writing.

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Routledge, 2020. p. 172-186
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Routledge Research in Gender and History
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Humanities, History
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-107193DOI: 10.4324/9780429325069-11ISI: 000487698400011Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85105164951ISBN: 9781000497601 (print)ISBN: 9780367343347 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-107193DiVA, id: diva2:1599166
Available from: 2021-09-30 Created: 2021-09-30 Last updated: 2024-01-24Bibliographically approved

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