1st Edition
Britain and the Narration of Travel in the Nineteenth Century Texts, Images, Objects
By Kate Hill
Copyright 2016
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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Interrogating the multiple ways in which travel was narrated and mediated, by and in response to, nineteenth-century British travelers, this interdisciplinary collection examines to what extent these accounts drew on and developed existing tropes of travel. The three sections take up personal and intimate narratives that were not necessarily designed for public consumption, tales intended for a... Read more
Introduction: Narratives of Travel, Narratives that Travel; 1: Spaces and Places in Motion; 1: Arctic and European In-Betweens: The Production of Tourist Spaces in Late Nineteenth-Century Northern Norway; 2: ‘The Formation of a Surface’: European Travel in Charles Dickens’s; 3: Female Space, Feminine Grace: Ladies and the Mid-Victorian Railway 1; 2: Narratives on the Move; 4: Victorians in the Alps: A Case Study of Zermatt’s Hotel Guest Books and Registers 1; 5: ‘Nerves of the Empire’: Submarine Telegraph Technological Travel Narratives as Imperial Adventure 1; 6: Thrills and Quills: Masculinity and Location in Three South African Travel Narratives (1834–1900); 7: Tourism in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Aesthetics and Advertisement in Travel Posters and Luggage Labels; 3: Cultural Flows; 8: The Travelling Other: A M?ori Narrative of a Visit to Australia in 1874; 9: Souvenirs: Narrating Overseas Violence in the Late Nineteenth Century; 10: British Travels in China during the Opium Wars (1839–1860): Shifting Images and Perceptions; 11: ‘The untrammelled fancy of the scenic artist’: Imagining and Encountering Zanzibar in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Biography
Kate Hill is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Lincoln, UK.
