Journal |
Rassegna iberistica
Journal issue | 48 | 123 | 2025
Research Article | Inhospitality, Colonialism and Gender in Mary Eyre’s Over the Pyrenees into Spain
Inhospitality, Colonialism and Gender in Mary Eyre’s Over the Pyrenees into Spain
- Pere Gifra-Adroher - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Espanya - email orcid profile
Abstract
This article analyses the representation of Spain as an inhospitable country in Mary Eyre’s Over the Pyrenees into Spain, a bitter narrative of the solitary journey that this neglected Victorian writer pursued across parts of the Peninsula during the summer of 1865. Drawing on diverse approaches to hospitality and inhospitality, I will argue that Eyre chose to purposely build a negative image of Spain by blending the two main ideologies that, according to Sara Mills, influenced Victorian women’s travel books, namely, the discourse of colonialism and the discourse of gender. Eyre, who during her journey was harassed and insulted by her triple status of woman, foreigner and solo traveller, used her narrative to ultimately take revenge and describe the country in a way no other Victorian travellers had done before.
Submitted: Jan. 20, 2025 | Accepted: March 20, 2025 | Published June 20, 2025 | Language: es
Keywords Inhospitalidad • Literatura de viajes • España • Inhospitality • Spain • Colonialism • Gender • Travel writing • Colonialismo • Género • Mary Eyre
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Inhospitality, Colonialism and Gender in Mary Eyre’s Over the Pyrenees into Spain |
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Gifra-Adroher Pere |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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This article analyses the representation of Spain as an inhospitable country in Mary Eyre’s Over the Pyrenees into Spain, a bitter narrative of the solitary journey that this neglected Victorian writer pursued across parts of the Peninsula during the summer of 1865. Drawing on diverse approaches to hospitality and inhospitality, I will argue that Eyre chose to purposely build a negative image of Spain by blending the two main ideologies that, according to Sara Mills, influenced Victorian women’s travel books, namely, the discourse of colonialism and the discourse of gender. Eyre, who during her journey was harassed and insulted by her triple status of woman, foreigner and solo traveller, used her narrative to ultimately take revenge and describe the country in a way no other Victorian travellers had done before. |
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Rassegna iberistica |
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Vol. 48 | Issue 123 | June 2025 |
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2025-06-20 |
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2025-03-20 |
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2025-01-20 |
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2037-6588 |
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2025/24/006 |
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Colonialism |
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dc.subject |
Colonialismo |
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dc.subject |
España |
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dc.subject |
Gender |
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dc.subject |
Género |
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dc.subject |
Inhospitalidad |
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Inhospitality |
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dc.subject |
Literatura de viajes |
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Mary Eyre |
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Spain |
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Travel writing |
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