Exploring Victorian Travel Literature

Studies representations of white illness in Victorian travel narratives about Africa and the Caribbean GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN: 9780748692958','ISBN: 9780748692965']); 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 Jose