Travel writing in the nineteenth century : filling the blank spaces / / edited by Tim Youngs [[electronic resource]]
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| Titolo: |
Travel writing in the nineteenth century : filling the blank spaces / / edited by Tim Youngs [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Anthem Press, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9491 |
| Soggetto topico: | Travel writing - History - 19th century |
| Travelers' writings - History and criticism | |
| Travel - History - 19th century | |
| Civilization, Modern - 19th century | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | YoungsTim <1961-> |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Travel writing in the nineteenth century |
| ISBN: | 1-283-37773-X |
| 9786613377739 | |
| 1-84331-769-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910459221603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Anthem nineteenth century studies.