An insightful and illuminating collection of essays on the political and cultural dynamics of travel literature in the nineteenth century.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Tim Youngs is Professor of English and Travel Studies at Nottingham Trent University, where he is Director of the Centre for Travel Writing Studies. He is the author of 'Travellers in Africa: British Travelogues 1850-1900' (Manchester University Press, 1994) and editor of 'Writing and Race' (Longman, 1997).
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List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Part One: Introduction: 1. Introduction: Filling the Blank Spaces Part Two: The Balkans, The Congo and the Middle East: 2. The Balkans in the Nineteenth-Century British Travel Writing 3. Touring in Extremis: travel and Adventure in the Congo 4. Politics, Aesthetics and Quest in British Travel Writing on the Middle East Part Three: India: 5. Imperial Player: Richard Burton in Sindh 6. Early Indian Travel Guides to Britain 7. A Princess's Pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begam's Account of Haij Part Four: America: A Yankee in Yucatan: John Lloyd Stephens and the Lost Cities of America 9. George Lewis and the American Churches 10. Strategies of Travel: Charles Dickens and William Wells Brown Part Five: Australasia: 11. Missionary Positions: Romantic European Polynesias from Cook to Stevenson 12. Writing the Southern Cross: Religious Travel Writing in Nineteenth-Century Australasia 13. A Young Writer's Journey into the New Zealand Interior: Katherine Mansfield's The Urewera Notebook Further Reading Index
List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Part One: Introduction: 1. Introduction: Filling the Blank Spaces Part Two: The Balkans, The Congo and the Middle East: 2. The Balkans in the Nineteenth-Century British Travel Writing 3. Touring in Extremis: travel and Adventure in the Congo 4. Politics, Aesthetics and Quest in British Travel Writing on the Middle East Part Three: India: 5. Imperial Player: Richard Burton in Sindh 6. Early Indian Travel Guides to Britain 7. A Princess's Pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begam's Account of Haij Part Four: America: A Yankee in Yucatan: John Lloyd Stephens and the Lost Cities of America 9. George Lewis and the American Churches 10. Strategies of Travel: Charles Dickens and William Wells Brown Part Five: Australasia: 11. Missionary Positions: Romantic European Polynesias from Cook to Stevenson 12. Writing the Southern Cross: Religious Travel Writing in Nineteenth-Century Australasia 13. A Young Writer's Journey into the New Zealand Interior: Katherine Mansfield's The Urewera Notebook Further Reading Index
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