04168nam 2200649 450 991081083100332120230803212557.00-7486-9296-71-4744-0082-540023955442(CKB)3710000000340200(MH)014072564-4(SSID)ssj0001423995(PQKBManifestationID)12616370(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001423995(PQKBWorkID)11440530(PQKB)10189836(UkCbUP)CR9780748692965(StDuBDS)EDZ0000985585(DE-B1597)616438(DE-B1597)9780748692965(MiAaPQ)EBC6995410(Au-PeEL)EBL6995410(EXLCZ)99371000000034020020220928d2014 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierExploring Victorian travel literature disease, race and climate /Jessica HowellEdinburgh :Edinburgh University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (ix, 198 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian cultureTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2016).0-7486-9295-9 Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-183) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Mrs Seacole Prescribes Hybridity: Climate and the Victorian Mixedrace Subject -- Chapter 2 Mapping Miasma, Containing Fear: Richard Burton in West Africa -- Chapter 3 Africanus Horton and the Climate of African Nationalism -- Chapter 4 ‘Climate proof’: Mary Kingsley and the Health of Women Travellers -- Chapter 5 ‘Self rather seedy’: Conrad’s Colonial Pathographies -- Conclusion: The Afterlife of Climate -- Bibliography -- IndexThis 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 contagionismEdinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.Travelers' writings, EnglishHistory and criticismEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismTravel in literatureTravelers' writings, EnglishHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.Travel in literature.820.9355Howell Jessica1698437MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810831003321Exploring Victorian travel literature4079893UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress