ROMANTICIZING TRAVEL IN A TIMELESS EGYPT

(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) Reviews of Books As a genre, travel literature invites the reader into an experience, offering a mode where the potentially foreign might become accessible and seemingly familiar. While Manley offers brief biographies of each author at the end of the book, she is less concerned with their particular contexts or perspectives and more interested in presenting a seemingly timeless perception of Egypt. Without explaining what makes a traveler, or why these nineteenth-century British, European, and American writers are representative of women's travel experiences in Egypt, Manley targets Women Travelers in Egypt at English-reading travelers whom she imagines might encounter the country in the same highly fanciful way she presents.