Exploring Victorian travel literature : disease, race and climate /

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...

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Autor principal: Howell, Jessica
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press [2014]
Colección:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Acceso en línea:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g09z25