| Exploring Victorian Travel Literature: Disease, Race and Climate Contributor(s): Howell, Jessica (Author) |
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ISBN: 0748692959 ISBN-13: 9780748692958 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | African - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 828 |
| Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.10 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 legacy of colonialism by using images of illness from climate. |