TY  - GEN
T1  - Exploring Victorian travel literature : disease, race and climate
T2  - Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
A1  - Howell, Jessica
LA  - English
PB  - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2014
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn957155611
AB  - 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. Key Features.  Offers a new perspective on the study of Victorian literature and imperialism by studying depictions of white bodies made ill by the tropical environment Bridges the critical approaches of illness narrative analysis, race and travel studies Analyses canonical travel literature alongside works by lesser known and minority authors Shows the pervasive afterlife of climate in the cultural imagination, even after the discoveries of germ theory and contagionism
OP  - 198
CN  - PR756.T72 H69 2014
SN  - 9780748692965
SN  - 0748692967
SN  - 9781474400824
SN  - 1474400825
SN  - 9780748692958
SN  - 0748692959
KW  - Travelers' writings, English : History and criticism.
KW  - English literature : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Travel in literature.
KW  - Medicine and the humanities : Africa : 19th century.
KW  - Medicine in literature.
KW  - Africa.
KW  - Medicine in Literature
KW  - Travel : history
KW  - Environment
KW  - History, 19th Century
KW  - Tropical Climate
KW  - Africa
KW  - Écrits de voyageurs anglais : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Littérature anglaise : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Voyage dans la littérature.
KW  - Médecine et sciences humaines : Afrique : 19e siècle.
KW  - Médecine dans la littérature.
KW  - Médecine : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Afrique.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : General.
KW  - Medicine in literature
KW  - English literature
KW  - Medicine and the humanities
KW  - Travel in literature
KW  - Travelers' writings, English
KW  - English.
KW  - Languages & Literatures.
KW  - English Literature.
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -