Ouvrage de référence
Bird, Isabella L. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan [1880]. San Francisco: Travellers’ Tales, Inc., 2000. Print.
Ouvrages et articles critiques
Adams, W. H. Davenport. Celebrated Women Travellers of the 19th century. London: Swann, Sonnenschein & Co., 1883. Print.
Allen, Alexandra. Travelling Ladies : Victorian Adventuresses. London: Jupiter, 1980. Print.
Bassnet, Susan. “Travel Writing and Gender” in The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing. Eds Peter Hulme & Tim Youngs. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002 : 225-241. Print.
Beauvoir, Simone de. La Force des choses. Tome 1. [1963] Paris : Gallimard, coll. Folio, 1972. Print.
Bird, Isabella L. The English Woman in America. London: John Murray, 1856. Print.
— . A Lady’s Ride in the Rocky Mountains. London: John Murray, 1879. Print.
Birkett, Dea. Spinsters Abroad : Victorian Lady Explorers. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989. Print.
Bouju, Emmanuel. L’Engagement littéraire. Rennes : PUR, coll. « Interférences », 2005. Print.
Carr, Helen. “Modernism and Travel, (1880-1940)” in The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing. Eds Peter Hulme & Tim Youngs. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002: 70-86. Print.
Clark, Steve. “‘A Study Rather than a Rapture’ : Isabella Bird on Japan.” New Directions in Travel Writing Studies. Eds. Julia Kuehn & Paul Smethurst. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 : 17-34. Print.
Davidson, Lilias. Hints to Lady Travellers at Home and Abroad. London: Illife & Sons, 1889. Print.
Denis, Benoît. Littérature et engagement : de Pascal à Sartre. Paris : Seuil, 2000. Print.
Doubrovsky, Serge. Autobiographiques : de Corneille à Sartre. Paris : PUF, coll. « Perspectives critiques », 1980. Print.
Fortunati, Vita, Rita Monticelli & Maurizio Ascari, eds. Travel Writing and the Female Imaginary. Bologna: Patron Editore, 2001. Print.
Forster, Shirley. Across New Worlds: 19th Century Women Travellers and their Writings. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990. Print.
Forster, Shirley, & Sarah Mills. An Anthology of Women’s Travel Writing. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2002. Print.
Frawley, Maria, H. A Wider Range: Travel Writing by Women in Victorian England. Fairleigh : Dickinson UP, 1994. Print.
Gilbert, Sandra M., & Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic. Newhaven & London: Yale UP, 1979. Print.
Goater, Thierry, & Élise Ouvrard. L’Engagement dans les romans féminins de la Grande-Bretagne des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Rennes : PUR, coll. « Interférences », 2012. Print.
Hamalian, Leo K. Ladies on the Loose: Women Travellers of the 18th and 19th centuries. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1981. Print.
Holt, Jenny. “Teaching Guide for ‘Samurai and Gentlemen’: The Anglophone Japan Corpus and New Avenues into Orientalism”. Literature Compass 11.3 (March 2014): 232-233. Web. 27th Sept. 2016.
Hulme, Peter, & Tim Youngs. The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. Print.
Hung, Ho-Fung. “Orientalist Knowledge and Social Theories: China and the European Conceptions of East-West Differences from 1600 to 1900.” Sociological Theory 21.3 (Sept. 2003): 254-280.
Kaempfer, Jean, Sonya Florey, & Jérôme Meizoz. Formes de l’engagement littéraire (XVème- XXème siècles). Paris : Antipodes, 2006. Print.
Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveller: Isabella Bird, the Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Boulder: Blue Penguin Publications, 1994. Print.
Kuehn, Julia & Paul Smethurst, eds. New Directions in Travel Writing Studies. London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Leiris, Michel. L’Âge d’homme, précédé de De la littérature considérée comme une tauromachie. Paris : Gallimard, coll. Folio, 1973. Print.
Leroi-Gourhan, Arlette & André. Un voyage chez les Aïnous. Hokkaïdo, 1938. Paris : Albin Michel, 1989. Print.
Makowiak, Alexandra. « Paradoxes philosophiques de l’engagement » dans L’Engagement littéraire, Bouju, Emmanuel. Rennes : PUR, Coll. « Interférences » : 2005 : 19-30.
Markley, Robert. The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006.
Mason Michele M. & Helen J. S. Lee. Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context and Critique. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2012. Print.
Mason, Michele M. “Writing Ainu Out/Writing Japanese In: The ‘Nature’ of Japanese Colonialism in Hokkaido” in Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context and Critique. Eds. Michele M. Mason & Helen J. S. Lee. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2012 : 33-54. Print.
Middleton, Dorothy. Victorian Lady Travellers. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965. Print.
Mills, Sarah. Discourses of Difference. An Analysis of Women’s Travel Writing and Colonialism. London: Routledge, 1991. Print.
Nishihara, Daisuke. “Said, Orientalism, and Japan”. Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 25: 241-253. Jstor.org. 26th Sept. 2016. Web.
Rasson, Luc. « ’Je ne peux pas être de salut public’, Romain Gary engagé.” dans Formes de l’engagement littéraire (XVe-XXIe siècles). Eds. Jean Kaempfer, Sonya Florey et Jérôme Meizoz. Lausanne : Antipodes, 2006 : 89-99. Print.
Reviron, Floriane. “Isabella Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Unbeaten Tracks in Travel Literature” in In-Between Two Worlds: Narratives by Female Explorers and Travellers (1850-1945). Eds Béatrice Bijon & Gérard Gâcon. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. 67-77. Print.
Robinson, Jane. Wayward Women: A Guide to Women Travellers. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994. Print.
Russell, Mary. The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt: Women Travellers and their World. London: Collins, 1986. Print.
Ricœur, Paul. La Métaphore vive. Paris : Seuil. 1975. Print
Rosolato, Guy. La Relation d’inconnu. Paris : Gallimard NRF, 1978. Print.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Qu’est-ce que la littérature ? [1948]. NRF Idées. Paris : Gallimard, 1970. Print.
Stoddart, Anna M. The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop) Hon. Member of the Oriental Society of Pekin, FRGS, FRSGS. London: John Murray, 1906. Print.
Suhamy, Henri. Les Figures de style. Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, « Que sais-je ? » (No 1889), 1981. Print.
Williams, Laurence. “Defining English Identity in Japan: East India Company Accounts of the Japan Trade in Kyushu, 1600-1673.” Academia.edu. 27th Sept. 2016. Print.
—. “Revising the ‘Contact Zone’: William Adams, Reception History, and the Opening of Japan, 1600-1860.” New Directions in Travel Writing Studies. Eds. Julia Kuehn & Paul Smethurst. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015: 297-312. Print.
—. “Jonathan Swift and Kaempfer’s History of Japan: The Origins of the Court and Empire of Japan, 1727/28.” Notes and Queries 63.1 (2016). Academia.edu. 27th Sept. 2016. Print.
Yōichi, Komori. “Rule in the Name of ‘Protection’: The Vocabulary of Colonialism.” Trans. Michele M. Mason. In Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context and Critique. Eds. Michele M. Mason & Helen J. S. Lee. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2012 : 60-75. Print.



