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Exploring Victorian Travel Literature
Disease, Race and Climate
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English
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2014
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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.
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Contents
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Series Editor’s Preface
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 Mrs Seacole Prescribes Hybridity: Climate and the Victorian Mixedrace Subject
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Chapter 2 Mapping Miasma, Containing Fear: Richard Burton in West Africa
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Chapter 3 Africanus Horton and the Climate of African Nationalism
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Chapter 4 ‘Climate proof’: Mary Kingsley and the Health of Women Travellers
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Chapter 5 ‘Self rather seedy’: Conrad’s Colonial Pathographies
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Conclusion: The Afterlife of Climate
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Bibliography
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Index
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9780748692965
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Literary Studies
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
