Gendering Orientalism: race, femininity and representation

Introduction : making connections

Race, femininity, representation – Said’s Orientalism and his critics – Problems with the ‘death of the author’ – Writers, readers and critics – Women representing the other: Villette –Professional opportunities for women in art and literature – The separate spheres: Problems of a professional identity – Opportunities for women in art – Opportunities for women in literature – Gender, genre and nation : Henriette Browne, the making of a woman Orientalist artist – The reception of Browne’s religious work in Britain and France – Making a name: The establishment of Browne’s artistic identity in Britain – Orientalism in the visual arts – ‘Only women should go to Turkey' : Henriette Browne and the female Orientalist gaze

Critical responses to Browne’s Harem Interiors, 1861 – Using experience to challenge stereotypes: Women write about the harem – The female gaze – From the subjective to the objective: Ethnographic discourses of race and nation – The problematic authority of the female Orientalist gaze – Aliens at home and Britons abroad : George Eliot's Orientalization of Jews in Daniel Deronda

Evolution, organicism, fiction and Jews: Contemporary responses to Daniel Deronda

Daniel Deronda and the formation of an Anglo-Jewish identity – George Eliot and Jewish sources – Shifting stereotypes: Origins, heredity, identity – Distance and difference: The problem of reading Daniel Deronda – Afterword: Gendering Orientalism