Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Victorian Odysseys: The Legacy of Homer as Envisioned by Victorian Women Writers -- Chapter One: Wandering Epic Hero from a Critical Lens in Olive Schreiner's "The Story of an African Farm" -- Chapter Two: Christina Rossetti's "Speaking Likenesses": Heterogeneity of Female Travelers in Victorian Children's Literature -- Part II: Travelling across Time and Texts: Rewriting of Travel in Post-Shahrazadic Women's Writing from the Middle East -- Chapter Three: Haunted by Past: Spatial, Temporal, and Metatextual Travel in Ahdaf Soueif's "The Map of Love" -- Chapter Four: Juxtaposing East and West, Homer and Shahrazad in Güneli Gün's "On the Road to Baghdad" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited.