Interpreting the Orient

edited by Paul and Janet Starkey (Reading: Ithaca, 2001). ISBN 0-86372-258-X. £35.00

Contents

Introduction – Paul and Janet Starkey

1 About Face: Sir David Wilkie's portrait of 'Mehemet Ali'
Emily Weeks

2 Carl Haag 1820–1915: facts or fantasy?
Cornelia Oelwein

3 John Frederick Lewis: 'in knowledge of the Orientals quite one of themselves'
Briony Llewellyn and Charles Newton

4 William Holman Hunt's visits to Egypt: passion, prejudice and truth to nature
Judith Bronkhurst

5 David Urquhart and the Role of Travel Literature in the Introduction of Turkish Baths to Victorian England
Nebehat Avc o lu

6 J. Wolff and H. Stern: missionaries in the Yemen
Aviva Klein-Franke

7 The Copts of Egypt: neither Christian nor Egyptian?
Hoda Gindi

8 Gender Politics in a colonial context: Victorian women's writing of Egypt
Sahar Sobhi Abdel-Hakim

9 The Image of Nineteenth-Century Cairo as a Medieval City in Kinglake's Eothen
Loubna A Youssef

10 `While I was in Egypt, I finished Dr. Thorne'
Nadia Gindy

11 On translating The Englishwoman in Egypt into Arabic
Azza Kararah

12 Amelia Edwards: from novelist to Egyptologist
Patricia O'Neill

13 Amelia Edwards, Jenny Lane and Egypt
Brenda E. Moon

14 Oriental Motifs in the poetry of Nikolay Gumilev
Marianna Taymanova

15 'Ah! That the Desert were my Dwelling Place': the romance of Persia in the early writings of Gertrude Bell
Katharine Chubbuck

16 Orientalism and Gender: the condition and status of women in Morocco
Amy J. Johnson

Select Bibliography
Index