19. Yüzyılda Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'na Gelen İngiliz Kadın Gezginler

Travel writing about the Ottoman Empire is a subject that is already understudied but women's travel writing is even more so. Covering up the two understudied parts of travel writing, therefore, this thesis is a study of British women travellers who had been to the Ottoman Empire at different dates in the nineteenth-century. This thesis will attempt to see the extent to which female travellers were following an Orientalist narrative or not. It will do so, by first establishing patterns associated with Orientalism and reading the accounts of six female travellers against that background, namely Henrietta Liston, Julia Pardoe, Marianne Young Postans, Agnes Ramsay, Fanny Janet Blunt and an anonymous writer. It will also highlight the importance of reading travel accounts through gender, which create different tensions in women's accounts that were not experienced by male travellers.