Exploring Victorian Travel Literature : : Disease, Race and Climate / / Jessica Howell.
Studies representations of white illness in Victorian travel narratives about Africa and the CaribbeanGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN: 9780748692958','ISBN: 9780748692965']);This interdisciplinary study explores both the personal and political significance of climate in the V...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Mrs Seacole Prescribes Hybridity: Climate and the Victorian Mixedrace Subject
- Chapter 2 Mapping Miasma, Containing Fear: Richard Burton in West Africa
- Chapter 3 Africanus Horton and the Climate of African Nationalism
- Chapter 4 'Climate proof': Mary Kingsley and the Health of Women Travellers
- Chapter 5 'Self rather seedy': Conrad's Colonial Pathographies
- Conclusion: The Afterlife of Climate
- Bibliography
- Index