Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts

Zusatztext "Leila Koivunen's study makes an impressive contribution to the growing body of critical work on Victorian travel writing."- Adrian S. Wisnicki! Birkbeck! University of London and Fordham University Informationen zum Autor Leila Koivunen is a Finnish historian and an Adjunct Professor in the School of History at the University of Turku. Klappentext Examines and explains how British explorers visualized the African interior in the latter part of the nineteenth century! providing an analysis of the process by which this visual material was transformed into the illustrations in popular travel books. Zusammenfassung This study provides the first sustained analysis of the process by which images of Africa were transformed into the illustrations of the continent that appeared in nineteenth-century European travel books. Koivunen examines the actual production process of images and the books in which they were published in order to demonstrate how, why, and by whom the images were manipulated. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations. List of Abbreviations. Acknowledgements. Introduction Part 1: Exploration and the Production of Travel Pictures 1. The Framed View of Africa 2. The Ideal of Visual Documentation 3. Problematic Picturing 4. Africa Captured in Pictures Part 2: Illustrations of Africa Take Shape in Europe 5. Shared Eye-Witnessing 6. Selection of Imagery 7. The Inevitable Transformation 8. Coping with the Unknown Continent. Conclusion: Africa through Western Eyes. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index

Product details

• Authors: Leila Koivunen, Koivunen Leila
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2008
• EAN: 9780415990011
• ISBN: 978-0-415-99001-1
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; The arts: general issues, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, African History, Art forms, The Arts: art forms, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, The arts: general topics