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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/967385931 Title: Exploring Victorian travel literature : disease, race and climate Author: Jessica Howell Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2014 ISBN/ISSN: 9780748692965 0748692967 9780748692958 0748692959 OCLC:967385931

  
  

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Exploring Victorian travel literature : disease, race and climate

Author:	Jessica Howell
Publisher:	Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2014
Edition/Format:	Computer file : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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.  Read more...
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Subjects	English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Travel in literature. Medicine and the humanities -- Africa -- 19th century. View all subjects
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