Title: Exploring Victorian Travel 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.
Subjects: Travelers' writings, history and criticism, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Travel in literature, Travelers' writings, English, History and criticism, English literature, Medicine and the humanities, Medicine in Literature, Travel, History, Environment, History, 19th Century, Tropical Climate