Exploring Victorian Travel Literature
Subtitle: Disease, Race and Climate
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780748692958
Subjects: Travelers' writings, history and criticism; English literature, history and criticism, 19th century; Travel in literature
Description: 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.