Table of Contents

Preface Introduction by Marilyn Demarest Button Dismantling Traditionalist Gender Roles: An Exotic Counter World in Byron's DON JUAN by Frank P. Riga Transforming the Stereotype: Exotic Women in Shelley's Alastor and The Witch of Atlas by John Greenfield "Asia Loves Prometheus": Asian Women and Shelley's Macropolitics by Eleanor Harrington-Austin A Genealogy of Ruths: From Alien Harvester to Fallen Woman in Nineteenth-Century England by Eve W. Stoddard Charlotte Brontë's VILLETTE: Imagining a Self between a Husband and a Wall by Andrea O'Reilley Herrera Challenging Traditionalist Gender Roles: The Exotic Woman as Critical Observer in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's AURORA LEIGH by Maureen Thum "In Short, She Is an Angel and I Am--": Odd Women and Same-Sex Desire in Wilkie Collins' WOMAN IN WHITE by Laurel Erickson The "Other" Woman in George Eliot's Fiction by Oliver Lovesey Phantoms for a Human Face: Race and the Construction of the African Woman's Identity in Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS by Ode S. Ogede The Foreign Woman Is a Man: Gender Reversal in D. H. Lawrence's Fiction by Karl Henzy Gypsy Women in English Life and Literature by Celia Esplugas A Losing Tradition: The Exotic Female of Anita Brookner's Early Fiction by Marilyn Demarest Button "Our Many Larval Selves": Durrell's Livia and the Cross-Cultural Signal by Mary Mathews Index

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Studies how British writers from the early 19th century to the mid 20th century have represented foreign women in literature.

About the Author

MARILYN DEMAREST BUTTON is Associate Professor of English at Lincoln University. She has contributed to numerous scholarly journals and reference works. TONI REED is a grant development consultant and freelance writer. Her previous books include Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction (1988).

Reviews

"How have modern authors imagined the Other? For the past generation critics have served up confident answers to that question. This collection demonstrates that the reality may be more complicated than we imagined. These essays will upset quite a few stereotypes--particularly your own."-Jonathan Rose, PhD Professor of History, Drew University Author, The Edwardian Temperament

?An evocative book edited by Marilyn Demarest Button and Toni Reed is The Foreign Woman in British Literature Exotics, ALiens, and Outsiders. The range of topics and high quality of essays make this collection particularly readable.?-Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

"An evocative book edited by Marilyn Demarest Button and Toni Reed is The Foreign Woman in British Literature Exotics, ALiens, and Outsiders. The range of topics and high quality of essays make this collection particularly readable."-Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900