Exploring Victorian Travel Literature: Disease, Race and Climate

by Jessica Howell

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748692959
• ISBN13: 9780748692958
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"