Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century

by Youngs, Tim

• ISBN13: 9781843312185
• ISBN10: 1843312182
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-11
• Publisher: Anthem Pr

Summary

Long popular with a general readership, travel writing has, in the past three decades or so, become firmly established as an object of serious and multi-disciplinary academic inquiry. Few of the scholarly and popular publications that have focused on the nineteenth century have regarded the century as a whole. This broad volume examines the cultural and social aspects of travel writing on Africa, Asia, America, the Balkans and Australasia. An additional key feature of the volume will be its inclusion of different types of traveller. Several types of travellers and travel texts are considered in the collection. The volume includes studies of explorers, missionaries, artists and writers, Romantics and socialists, colonialists and indigenes. It covers, therefore, a range of travels, travellers, and travellersrs" texts, and aims to establish some of the contexts in which travel took place. This volume is as much about departure points as it is about destinations, revealing the prejudices and precepts of the nineteenth-century traveller.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction: Filling the Blank Spaces	1
TIM YOUNGS
PART TWO: THE BALKANS, THE CONGO AND THE MIDDLE EAST
2. The Balkans in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Writing	19
VESNA GOLDSWORTHY
3. Touring in Extremis: Travel and Adventure in the Congo	37
STEPHEN DONOVAN
4. Politics, Aesthetics and Quest in British Travel Writing on the Middle East	55
GEOFFREY NASH
PART THREE: INDIA
5. Imperial Player: Richard Burton in Sindh	71
INDIRA GHOSE
6. Early Indian Travel Guides to Britain	87
MICHAEL H FISHER
7. A Princess's Pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begam's Account of Hajj	107
SIOBHAN LAMBERT-HURLEY
PART FOUR: AMERICA
8. A Yankee in Yucatan: John Lloyd Stephens and the Lost Cities of America	129
NIGEL LEASK
9. George Lewis and the American Churches	145
ALASDAIR PETTINGER
10. Strategies of Travel: Charles Dickens and William Wells Brown	163
TIM YOUNGS
PART FIVE: AUSTRALASIA
11. Missionary Positions: Romantic European Polynesias from Cook to Stevenson	179
SARAH JOHNSON
12. Writing the Southern Cross: Religious Travel Writing in Nineteenth-Century Australasia	201
ANNA JOHNSTON
13. A Young Writer's Journey into the New Zealand Interior: Katherine Mansfield's The Urewera Notebook	219
ANNE MAXWELL
Further Reading	237
Index	241