British Narratives of Exploration (eBook, ePUB)

Case Studies on the Self and Other
Redaktion: Regard, Frédéric

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Features a collection of essays that focus on British travel narratives from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth centuries. This work investigates how the early explorers' sense of self was destabilised by encounters with the Other.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317316299
• Artikelnr.: 43589062

Autorenporträt

Frederic Regard

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Articulating Empire's Unstable Zones, Frederic
Regard; Chapter 1a Encountering Africa: Uses of the Other in the Book of
John Mandeville (1357), Kofi Campbell; Chapter 2 Naming the Other, Claiming
the Other in Early Modern Accounts of First Encounters: From Mandeville to
John Nicholl (1607) and Richard Jobson (1623), Nicholas Myers, Ladan
Niayesh; Chapter 3 False Play and Dumb Show in the World Encompassed by Sir
Francis Drake (1628), Sophie Lemercier-Goddard; Chapter 4 'Waterali' Goes
Native: Describing First Encounters in Sir Walter Ralegh's the Discovery of
Guiana (1596), Line Cottegnies; Chapter 5 Domestication and Recognition of
the Other in John Lawson's a New Voyage to Carolina (1709), Robert Sayre;
Chapter 6 The (He) Art of First Encounter at Tahiti: Samuel Wallis's
Conflicts of Interest (1767), Sandhya Patel; Chapter 7 Distance and
Proximity in James Cook's First Voyage Around the World (1768-71), Anne
Dromart; Chapter 8 Walking in the Contact Zone: Georg Forster and the
Peripatetic Mode of Exploration (1768-77), Christian Moser; Chapter 9 The
Disorder of Things: Empiricism and the Cartographic Enterprise, or, The
Observations of Samuel Hearne (1795) and Alexander Mackenzie (1801), Cheryl
Cundell; Chapter 10 John Franklin and the Idea of North: Narrative of a
Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-1822, Catherine
Lanone; Chapter 11 'Cultivating That Mutual Friendship': Commerce,
Diplomacy and Self-Representation in Hugh Clapperton's Journal of a Second
Expedition into the Interior of Africa From the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo
(1829), Anne-Pascale Bruneau; Chapter 12 Trying to Understand: James Tod
Among the Rajputs (1829, 1832), Florence D'Souza; Chapter 13 Shifting
Perspectives: Visual Representation and the Imperial 'I' in Anna Jameson's
Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838), Jennifer Scott; Chapter
14 Charles Darwin in Patagonia: Descriptive Strategies in the Beagle Diary
(1831-1836) and the Voyage of the Beagle (1845), Virginia Richter; Chapter
15 Fieldwork as Self-Harrowing: Richard Burton's Cultural Evolution
(1851-1856), Frédéric Regard; Chapter 16 Fictionalizing the Encounter with
the Other: Henry Morton Stanley and the African Wilderness (1872-1890),
Nicoletta Brazzelli;