LEADER 04168nam 2200649 450 001 9910787456503321 005 20230803212557.0 010 $a0-7486-9296-7 010 $a1-4744-0082-5 024 8 $a40023955442 035 $a(CKB)3710000000340200 035 $a(MH)014072564-4 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001423995 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12616370 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001423995 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11440530 035 $a(PQKB)10189836 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780748692965 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000985585 035 $a(DE-B1597)616438 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780748692965 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6995410 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6995410 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000340200 100 $a20220928d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aExploring Victorian travel literature $edisease, race and climate /$fJessica Howell 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 198 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aEdinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2016). 311 $a0-7486-9295-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 173-183) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tSeries Editor?s Preface -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter 1 Mrs Seacole Prescribes Hybridity: Climate and the Victorian Mixedrace Subject -- $tChapter 2 Mapping Miasma, Containing Fear: Richard Burton in West Africa -- $tChapter 3 Africanus Horton and the Climate of African Nationalism -- $tChapter 4 ?Climate proof?: Mary Kingsley and the Health of Women Travellers -- $tChapter 5 ?Self rather seedy?: Conrad?s Colonial Pathographies -- $tConclusion: The Afterlife of Climate -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThis interdisciplinary study explores both the personal and political significance of climate in the Victorian imagination. It analyses foreboding imagery of miasma, sludge and rot across non-fictional and fictional travel narratives, speeches, private journals and medical advice tracts. Well-known authors such as Joseph Conrad are placed in dialogue with minority writers such as Mary Seacole and Africanus Horton in order to understand their different approaches to representing white illness abroad. The project also considers postcolonial texts such as Wilson Harris's Palace of the Peacock to demonstrate that authors continue to 'write back' to the legacies of colonialism by using images of climate induced illness. Key Features * Offers a new perspective on the study of Victorian literature and imperialism by studying depictions of white bodies made ill by the tropical environment *Bridges the critical approaches of illness narrative analysis, race and travel studies *Analyses canonical travel literature alongside works by lesser known and minority authors *Shows the pervasive afterlife of climate in the cultural imagination, even after the discoveries of germ theory and contagionism 410 0$aEdinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture. 606 $aTravelers' writings, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTravel in literature 615 0$aTravelers' writings, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTravel in literature. 676 $a820.9355 700 $aHowell$b Jessica$01507820 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787456503321 996 $aExploring Victorian travel literature$93738841 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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