Richard Burton
Subtitle: A Traveller in Brazil, 1865-1868
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780773476455
Subjects: Classic travel writing; Literary studies: 19th century; Biography & Autobiography; Travel - Foreign; Biography/Autobiography; South America - General; Literary; 1821-1890; 1821-1890.; Brazil; Burton, Richard Francis,; Diamond mines and mining; Explorations of the highlands; Explorations of the highlands of the Brazil; Gold mines and mining; Sir,
Description: "This work is a study on The Highlands of the Brazil, the travel chronicle written by Sir Richard Burton in 1869. It deals with visions of modernity and perceptions of the future. Taking Burton's narrative as point of departure, it focuses on a rhetorical pattern that can be traced back to the 16th century, that of 'a land of the future'.

It examines how that discourse was reinvented and applied throughout the second half of the 19th century, while simultaneously being questioned or abandoned by less optimistic interpreters. It takes other texts into consideration: those written by foreign visitors such as Arthur de Gobineau, Louis Agassiz, Johann Spix, Karl Martius, William Hadfield; and those by Brazilian authors such as Silvio Romero, Andre Reboucas, Nina Rodrigues, and Euclides da Cunha.

It also examines the years Richard Burton spent in Brazil, largely ignored by biographers."--BOOK JACKET.