Exploring Victorian Travel Literature

Disease, Race and Climate

AvJessica Howell

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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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 authors such as Joseph Conrad are placed in dialogue with minority writers such as Mary Seacole and Africanus Horton in order to understand their different approaches to representing white illness abroad. The project also considers postcolonial texts such as Wilson Harris's Palace of the Peacock to demonstrate that authors continue to 'write back' to the legacy of colonialism by using images of illness from climate.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399567558

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Jessica Howell is Wellcome Research Fellow at the Centre for the Humanities and Health, King’s College London, where she researches health and the literature of empire. Her work bridges the fields of Victorian studies and the Medical Humanities by examining colonial illness narratives. She also serves on the board of editors for the University of California Medical Humanities book series with Rodopi.

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By linking illness to the African environment, the five British writers Howell discusses wrote illness into the framework of Victorian once-popular disease theories. By adeptly exploring how and why her authors clung to anachronistic ideas, Jessica Howell makes a significant contribution to the histories of both science and literature.

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Prescribing hybridity: climate and the Victorian mixed-race subject2. ‘It was too dangerous a place to show fear’: mapping disease and the body3. To ‘pay most dearly for their folly’: the climate of African nationalism4. ‘Climate proof’: women travellers and survival5. ‘Self rather seedy’: colonial pathographyAfterwordBibliography