Exploring Victorian travel literature : disease, race and climate /

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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...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Howell, Jessica
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Travelers' writings, English > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Travel in literature.
Medicine and the humanities > Africa > 19th century.
Medicine in literature.
Medicine in Literature
Travel > history
Environment
History, 19th Century
Tropical Climate
Écrits de voyageurs anglais > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Voyage dans la littérature.
Médecine et sciences humaines > Afrique > 19e siècle.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Medicine in literature
English literature
Medicine and the humanities
Travel in literature
Travelers' writings, English
English.
Languages & Literatures.
English Literature.
Africa.
Africa
Afrique.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Exploring Victorian travel literature : disease, race and climate /
by Howell, Jessica
Published 2014
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