Travel writing in the nineteenth century : filling the blank spaces / / edited by Tim Youngs [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459221603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Anthem Press, , 2006
• ISBN: 1-283-37773-X; 9786613377739; 1-84331-769-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Anthem nineteenth century studies
• Disciplina: 820.9491
• Soggetti: Travel writing - History - 19th century; Travelers' writings - History and criticism; Travel - History - 19th century; Civilization, Modern - 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction : filling the blank spaces / Tim Youngs -- ; 2. Balkans in nineteenth-century British travel writing / Vesna Goldsworthy -- ; 3. Touring in extremis : travel and adventure in the Congo / Stephen Donovan -- ; 4. Politics, aesthetics and quest in British travel writing on the Middle East / Geoffrey Nash -- ; 5. Imperial player : Richard Burton in Sindh / Indira Ghose -- ; 6. Early Indian travel guides to Britain / Michael H. Fisher -- ; 7. princess's pilgrimage : Nawab Sikandar Begam's account of Hajj / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley -- ; 8. Yankee in Yucatan : John Lloyd Stephens and the lost cities of America / Nigel Leask -- ; 9. George Lewis and the American churches / Alasdair Pettinger -- ; 10. Strategies of travel : Charles Dickens and William Wells Brown / Tim Youngs -- ; 11. Missionary positions : romantic European Polynesias from Cook to Stevenson / Sarah Johnson -- ; 12. Writing the southern cross : religious travel writing in nineteenth-century Australasia / Anna Johnston -- ; 13. young writer's journey into the New Zealand interior : Katherine Mansfield's The Urewera notebook / Anne Maxwell.
• Sommario/riassunto: An insightful and illuminating collection of essays on the political and ; cultural dynamics of travel literature in the nineteenth century.