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While England has been strengthened by a proud isolationism, she
has simultaneously been enriched by the economic, social, and
political complexities that have emerged as people of different
ethnic and cultural backgrounds have moved within her borders, or
when her own citizens have emigrated among those foreigners to live
or rule. This book explores the foreign element in English culture
and the attempt by English writers from the early 19th to the mid
20th century to portray their complex and often ambiguous responses
to that doubly foreign element among them: the foreign woman. While
being foreign may begin with national or ethnic difference, the
contributors to this book expand it to include other forms of
alienation from a dominant culture, resulting from gender, race,
class, ideology, or temperament. The many factors shaping English
national identity--including British imperialism, immigration
patterns, English family and social structures, and English common
law--have been shaped by gender-related issues. Though not a
prominent literary figure, the foreign woman in England has
received increasingly critical attention in recent years as a
psychological and sociological phenomenon. By beginning with Byron
in the early 19th century and concluding with Lawrence Durrell in
the 20th century, this study contributes to a more comprehensive
vision of the foreign woman as she is portrayed by a number of
British authors, including Shelley, Wordsworth, Charlotte Bronte,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Joseph
Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, and Anita Brookner.
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