Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century - Filling the Blank Spaces

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Tim Youngs Klappentext An insightful and illuminating collection of essays on the political and cultural dynamics of travel literature in the nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Tim Youngs
• Assisted by: Tim Youngs (Editor), Youngs Tim (Editor)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2006
• EAN: 9781843312185
• ISBN: 978-1-84331-218-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series; Anthem Studies in Travel
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000