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Exploring Victorian Travel Literature

Author : Jessica Howell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748692967
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Victorian Travel Literature written by Jessica Howell and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 legacy of colonialism by using images of illness from climate.

Exploring Victorian Travel Literature

Author : Jessica Howell
Publisher : Edinburgh Critical Studies in
ISBN 13 : 9780748692958
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Victorian Travel Literature written by Jessica Howell and published by Edinburgh Critical Studies in. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 legacy of colonialism by using images of illness from climate.

Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence

Author : Laura E. Franey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230510035
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence written by Laura E. Franey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-10-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian travelers' descriptions of physical and verbal violence in Africa. Travel narratives provide a rich entry into the shifting meanings of colonialism, as formal imperialism replaced informal control in the Nineteenth century. Offering a wide-ranging approach to travel literature's significance in Victorian life, this book features analysis of physical and verbal violence in major exploration narratives as well as lesser-known volumes and newspaper accounts of expeditions. It also presents new perspectives on Olive Schreiner and Joseph Conrad by linking violence in their fictional travelogues with the rhetoric of humanitarian trusteeship.

A Wider Range

Author : Maria H. Frawley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Wider Range written by Maria H. Frawley and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These chapers include discussion of travel writing by such major figures as Mary Shelley, Isabella Bird Bishop, and Mary Kingsley as well as that of less-known travel writers such as Charlotte Eaton, Frances Elliot, Amelia Edwards, and Florence Dixie.

Crossing Borders in Victorian Travel

Author : Barbara Franchi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152750963X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders in Victorian Travel written by Barbara Franchi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Victorian travellers define and challenge the notion of Empire? How did the multiple forms of Victorian travel literature, such as fiction, travel accounts, newspapers, and poetry, shape perceptions of imperial and national spaces, in the British context and beyond? This collection examines how, in the Victorian era, space and empire were shaped around the notion of boundaries, by travel narratives and practices, and from a variety of methodological and critical perspectives. From the travel writings of artists and polymaths such as Carmen Sylva and Richard Burton, to a reassessment of Rudyard Kipling’s, H. G. Wells’s and Julia Pardoe’s cross-cultural and cross-gender travels, this collection assesses a broad range of canonical and lesser-studied Victorian travel texts and genres, and evaluates the representation of empires, nations, and individual identity in travel accounts covering Europe, Asia, Africa and Britain.

Travellers in Africa

Author : Timothy Youngs
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152612372X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Travellers in Africa written by Timothy Youngs and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness.

The Right Sort of Woman

Author : Precious McKenzie Stearns
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443837083
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Right Sort of Woman written by Precious McKenzie Stearns and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rhetoric surrounding Empire, freedom, and adventure are nowhere more striking than in nineteenth-century British women’s travel writing. The Right Sort of Woman charts the progression of British feminism in relationship to exploration of the Empire. Precious McKenzie introduces us to the lesser known writings of Florence Douglas Dixie, Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond, and Isabel Savory, and also revisits the more widely read travel texts of Isabella Bird Bishop and Mary Kingsley. Their travel writings explore the hotly debated Victorian ideologies of femininity, equality, and fitness. McKenzie contends that British women travel writers found opportunities for freedom when traveling abroad. Women travelers could participate in what were traditionally men’s sports – hunting, riding, canoeing, shooting, mountaineering – when far away from strict Victorian social codes of behavior. Because of their athletic pursuits while abroad, British women travelers found their health improved as did their self-reliance and self-confidence. McKenzie considers how sports shaped the British feminist movement and then became integral to the revolutionary image of the New Woman at the fin de siècle.

Travellers in Africa

Author : Tim Youngs
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719039690
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Travellers in Africa written by Tim Youngs and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of travellers in Africa during the Golden Age of Victorian exploration often tell us more about 19th-century Britain than about Africa. In this text, the author places these narratives in their historical and cultural context, and examines how racial images may be affected by social change and litarary form.

A Victorian Traveler in the Middle East

Author : Nancy Micklewright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351577891
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book A Victorian Traveler in the Middle East written by Nancy Micklewright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juxtaposing the albums of Lady Brassey, an overlooked figure among Victorian women travelers, with Brassey's travel books, Nancy Micklewright takes advantage of a unique opportunity to examine the role of photography in the 1870s and 1880s in constructing ideas about place and empire. This study draws on a range of source material to investigate aspects of the Brassey collection. The book begins with an overview of Lady Brassey's life and projects, as well as an examination of issues relevant to subsequent discussions of the travel literature, the photographs, and the albums in which the photographs are assembled. Lady Brassey is next considered as a traveler and public figure, and the author gives an overview of Brassey's travel literature, placing her in her social and political context. Micklewright then considers the seventy volumes of photographs which comprise the Brassey album collection, taking an especially close look at the eight albums devoted to the Middle East. Analyzing the specific contents and structure of the albums, and the interplay of text and image within, she explores how the Brasseys constructed their presentation of the region. While confirming some earlier work about constructions of the Orient by the British during the time, this book offers a much more detailed and nuanced understanding of how photographic and literary constructions were related to individual experience and identity within a larger British identity. The first appendix explores the illustrative relationship between the photograph albums and Lady Brassey's travel books, yielding an understanding of the processes involved in transferring the photographic image to a printed one, at a particular moment in the development of book illustration. A second appendix lists the contents and named photographers of all seventy albums in the Brassey collection. All in all, Micklewright's study makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the complex and unstable socia

Are We There Yet?

Author : Alison Byerly
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472051865
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Are We There Yet? written by Alison Byerly and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unusual approach to the Victorian phenomenon of virtual travel and realism through the lens of contemporary conceptualizations of media and its effects

Representations of the North in Victorian Travel Literature

Author : Dimitrios Kassis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443875155
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Representations of the North in Victorian Travel Literature written by Dimitrios Kassis and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel literature has always been associated with the construction of utopias which were founded on the idea of unknown lands. During their journeys in foreign lands, British travellers tended to formulate various critical opinions based on their background knowledge of the country visited. Their attempts to interpret other nations were often misinterpretations of the peoples in question as the Other. At the close of the eighteenth century, when Grand Tourism started to fade away and travelling became a mainstream activity for the middle-class Briton, travel writers attempted to identify with.

Travel Writing, Visual Culture, and Form, 1760-1900

Author : Brian H. Murray
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137543396
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Travel Writing, Visual Culture, and Form, 1760-1900 written by Brian H. Murray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection reveals the variety of literary forms and visual media through which travel records were conveyed in the long nineteenth century, bringing together a group of leading researchers from a range of disciplines to explore the relationship between travel writing, visual representation and formal innovation.

The Long Journey

Author : Maria Pia Di Bella
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789209358
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book The Long Journey written by Maria Pia Di Bella and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel writing has, for centuries, composed an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization. This interdisciplinary volume brings together anthropologists, literary scholars, social historians, and other scholars to illuminate travel writing in all its forms. With studies ranging from colonial adventurism to the legacies of the Holocaust, The Long Journey offers a unique dual focus on experience and genre as it applies to three key realms: memory and trauma, confrontations with the Other, and the cultivation of cultural perspective.

Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Tim Youngs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century written by Tim Youngs and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the cultural and social aspects of travel writing on Africa, Asia, America, the Balkans, and Australasia.

British India and Victorian Literary Culture

Author : Maire ni Fhlathuin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748699694
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book British India and Victorian Literary Culture written by Maire ni Fhlathuin and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British India and Victorian Culture extends current scholarship on the Victorian period with a wide-ranging and innovative analysis of the literature of British India.

The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature

Author : Dennis Denisoff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429018177
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature written by Dennis Denisoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature offers 45 chapters by leading international scholars working with the most dynamic and influential political, cultural, and theoretical issues addressing Victorian literature today. Scholars and students will find this collection both useful and inspiring. Rigorously engaged with current scholarship that is both historically sensitive and theoretically informed, the Routledge Companion places the genres of the novel, poetry, and drama and issues of gender, social class, and race in conversation with subjects like ecology, colonialism, the Gothic, digital humanities, sexualities, disability, material culture, and animal studies. This guide is aimed at scholars who want to know the most significant critical approaches in Victorian studies, often written by the very scholars who helped found those fields. It addresses major theoretical movements such as narrative theory, formalism, historicism, and economic theory, as well as Victorian models of subjects such as anthropology, cognitive science, and religion. With its lists of key works, rich cross-referencing, extensive bibliographies, and explications of scholarly trajectories, the book is a crucial resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, while offering invaluable support to more seasoned scholars.

National Identities and Travel in Victorian Britain

Author : M. Morgan
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333719992
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book National Identities and Travel in Victorian Britain written by M. Morgan and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-01-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores components of national identity in Victorian Britain by analyzing travel literature. It draws on published and unpublished travel journals by middle-class men and women from England, Scotland, and Wales who toured the Continent and/or Britain. The main aim is to illustrate both the contexts that inspired the various collective identities of Britishness, Englishness, Scotsness, and Welshness, as well as the qualities Victorian men and women had in mind when they used such terms to identify and imagine themselves collectively.