Britain and the Narration of Travel in the Nineteenth Century : Texts, Images, Objects


Kate Hill
Bok Engelsk 2016 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Farnham : : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, , 2016.
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1 online resource (244 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Narratives of Travel, Narratives that Travel; Section I 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 Little Dorrit; 3 Female Space, Feminine Grace: Ladies and the Mid-Victorian Railway ; Section 2 Narratives on the Move; 4 Victorians in the Alps: A Case Study of Zermatt's Hotel Guest Books and Registers. - 11 'The untrammelled fancy of the scenic artist': Imagining and Encountering Zanzibar in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturiesIndex. - 5 'Nerves of the Empire': Submarine Telegraph Technological Travel Narratives as Imperial Adventure 6 Thrills and Quills: Masculinity and Location in Three South African Travel Narratives (1834-1900); 7 Tourism in the Age ofMechanical Reproduction: Aesthetics and Advertisement in Travel Posters and Luggage Labels; Section III Cultural Flows; 8 The Travelling Other: A Māori 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
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978-1-4724-5835-3

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