1st Edition
Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts
By Leila Koivunen
Copyright 2009
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study examines and explains how British explorers visualized the African interior in the latter part of the nineteenth century, providing the first sustained analysis of the process by which this visual material was transformed into the illustrations in popular travel books. At that time, central Africa was, effectively, a blank canvas for Europeans, unknown and devoid of visual... Read more
Introduction
Part 1: Exploration and the production of travel pictures
1. Towards the Unknown?
2. The Ideal of Visual Documentation
3. Problematic Picturing
4. "Darkest Africa" Captured in Pictures
Part 2: Illustrations of Africa Take Shape in Europe
5. Sharing the Experience of Being an Eye-Witness
6. Selection of Imagery
7. The Inevitable Transformation
8. Coping with the "Dark Continent"
Conclusion – Africa through Western Eyes
Biography
Leila Koivunen is a Finnish historian and an Adjunct Professor in the School of History at the University of Turku.
"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
