Gender, Orientalism, and the Female Gaze in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Letters
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This paper examines Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s letters written during her trip to what is currently known as Turkey. Though her text was not highly regarded by the public in her time, much critical attention has been paid to her text later by scholars. It is mainly because they discovered Lady Montagu as one of the few earlier women travel writers, and more significantly, they could highlight her text as more feminist than Orientalist. Despite such seemingly opposing perspectives on her travel writing, this paper gives particular attention to the way in which Montagu not only attempts to accommodate such seemingly opposite characteristics at the same time but also pursues to go beyond the logic of the either-or. Lacanian concept of the split between seeing and gazing in his writings helps me to analyze how Montagu catches and represents her own unique moment of reciprocal gazing that makes her feminist writing distinct from others, though her writing as a whole still remains in the tradition of male dominant Orientalist travel writings at that time. This study considers how Montagu shows a creation of female subjectivity under such circumstances and attempts to deconstruct gendered and colonialist Orientalism.
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This paper examines Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s letters written during her trip to what is currently known as Turkey. Though her text was not highly regarded by the public in her time, much critical attention has been paid to her text later by scholars. It is mainly because they discovered Lady Montagu as one of the few earlier women travel writers, and more significantly, they could highlight her text as more feminist than Orientalist. Despite such seemingly opposing perspectives on her travel writing, this paper gives particular attention to the way in which Montagu not only attempts to accommodate such seemingly opposite characteristics at the same time but also pursues to go beyond the logic of the either-or. Lacanian concept of the split between seeing and gazing in his writings helps me to analyze how Montagu catches and represents her own unique moment of reciprocal gazing that makes her feminist writing distinct from others, though her writing as a whole still remains in the tradition of male dominant Orientalist travel writings at that time. This study considers how Montagu shows a creation of female subjectivity under such circumstances and attempts to deconstruct gendered and colonialist Orientalism.
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