School of Historical and Philosophical Studies - Theses

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    Eyes on Albania: sex and empire in the British imagination
    Dempsey, Carolyn Teresa ( 2014)
    In the 19th and 20th centuries, British travellers began to explore Albania and publish their impressions of the country. While this 'textual universe' has often been used as an objective window into an exotic past, these impressions were indelibly coloured by the conditions of their construction.This thesis examines Albania as the British imagined it, and Britain as it is revealed through Albania, with an emphasis on this as a gendered exchange.