Exploring Victorian travel literature : disease, race and climate /: disease, race and climate. ([2014])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jessica Howell.
• Other Names: Howell, Jessica
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Prescribing hybridity: climate and the Victorian mixed-race subject; 2. 'It was too dangerous a place to show fear': mapping disease and the body; 3. To 'pay most dearly for their folly': the climate of African nationalism; 4. 'Climate proof': women travellers and survival; 5. 'Self rather seedy': colonial pathography; Afterword; Bibliography.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 198 pages)
• Subjects: 820.9/355; 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; Travel -- history; Environment; History, 19th Century; Tropical Climate; LITERARY CRITICISM -- General; English literature; Medicine and the humanities; Travel in literature; Travelers' writings, English; English; Languages & Literatures; English Literature; Africa; Africa; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748692965; 0748692967
• Related ISBNs: 9781474400824; 1474400825; 9780748692958; 0748692959
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-183) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.