Reading the splendid body
Travelers' writings, English
Body, Human, in literature
Human body in literature
English literature, history and criticism, 18th century
Travel writing
Sex role in literature
Historiography
British
Women and literature
Intellectual life
English literature
Travel
History and criticism
History
This book surveys an underlying discourse on female and oriental consumerism in nearly four centuries of British colonialist narratives on India. It examines some of the significant ways in which the subaltern and female body was constructed by Western ethnographers within early modern British colon…
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