Exploring Victorian Travel Literature : Disease, Race and Climate
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
ISBN-10
0748692959
ISBN-13
9780748692958
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 14th, 2014
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
512 grams
Dimensions
16.40 x 23.60 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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This interdisciplinary study explores both the personal and political significance of climate in the Victorian imagination, analysing foreboding imagery of miasma, sludge and rot across non-fictional and fictional travel narratives, speeches, private journals and medical advice tracts.
This interdisciplinary study explores both the personal and political significance of climate in the Victorian imagination. It analyses foreboding imagery of miasma, sludge and rot across non-fictional and fictional travel narratives, speeches, private journals and medical advice tracts. Well-known authors such as Joseph Conrad are placed in dialogue with minority writers such as Mary Seacole and Africanus Horton in order to understand their different approaches to representing white illness abroad. The project also considers postcolonial texts such as Wilson Harris''s Palace of the Peacock to demonstrate that authors continue to ''write back'' to the legacies of colonialism by using images of climate induced illness.
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