1st Edition
Victorian Women’s Travel Writing and the Female-Capitalist Gaze Narrating Commerce, Craftsmanship, and Nationhood in the Middle East and Asia
Introduction: An Inquiry into Victorian Women’s Travel Writing and Classical Political-Economic Thought
1. A Bazaar Business: Women’s Commercial Agency and the Oriental Marketplace
2. The Exhibitionary Narrative: Visual Rhetorics of Economics and Ethnography
3. Supply on Demand? Forging Economic Futures in the Global Antiquities Market
4. The Looming Empire: Industry, Aesthetics, and Political Economy in the Global Textile Trade
Biography
Margaret K. Gray is an early-career researcher based in Oxford, UK. She earned her PhD in English Literature at Newcastle University in 2024; her body of work focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to Victorian literature and aesthetic culture. She has published articles on Victorian women travellers as collectors of Japanese art and Buddhist approaches to Victorian aesthetics. In addition to academic teaching and research, she has worked as an archivist, curatorial assistant, and writer for UK institutions including Newcastle University, the Bodleian Library (Oxford), and UNESCO Blue Shield.
