Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century: Filling the Blank Spaces (Anthem Nineteenth Century Studies)

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Copyright\n......Page 5
Contents\n......Page 6
List of Illustrations\n......Page 8
Notes on Contributors\n......Page 10
Acknowledgements\n......Page 14
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Girdling the Earth\n......Page 19
Tourism\n......Page 21
Rolling-stock\n......Page 22
Photography\n......Page 25
The essays\n......Page 26
Works Cited\n......Page 31
Introduction: Where exactly are the Balkans?\n......Page 34
On the shores of Illyria: British travellers in the Balkans in the 1800s\n......Page 37
Fighting the Balkan Wars\n......Page 42
Writing the Balkans: experience and imagination\n......Page 46
Works cited\n......Page 48
3. Touring in Extremis: Travel and Adventure in the Congo, by Stephen Donovan\n......Page 52
Exploring and pioneering, 1870 to 1900\n......Page 55
Sport, science and spectacle, 1890-1910\n......Page 60
Tourism after 1910\n......Page 64
Notes\n......Page 65
Works cited\n......Page 66
4. Politics, Aesthetics and Quest in British Travel Writing on the Middle East, by Geoffrey Nash\n......Page 70
Favoured and less-favoured peoples and nations\n......Page 74
Individual travellers and their quests\n......Page 76
Conclusion\n......Page 80
Notes\n......Page 81
Works cited\n......Page 82
5. Imperial Player: Richard Burton in Sindh, by Indira Ghose......Page 86
Notes\n......Page 99
Works cited\n......Page 100
6. Early Indian Travel Guides to Britain, by Michael H. Fisher\n......Page 102
Early travellers and travel accounts: Europe and India\n......Page 103
The authors and their chosen genre\n......Page 105
The authors\' multiple role and readers \n......Page 109
Representations of Britons\n......Page 112
Conclusion\n......Page 115
Notes\n......Page 117
Works cited\n......Page 118
Introduction: women travellers, Muslim travellers\n......Page 122
Bhopal, paramountcy and the Indian pilgrimage\n......Page 125
Writing a Muslim journey in a colonial environment\n......Page 127
Defining the Self against a Muslim Other\n......Page 132
An alternative construction of \'the Orient\'\n......Page 135
\'Viewing things from an Oriental point of view\': conclusions\n......Page 138
Works cited\n......Page 140
Discovering, describing, purchasing\n......Page 144
Travel writing and the politics of federation\n......Page 149
\'They rise like skeletons from the grave ...\'\n......Page 151
Death, decay, resurrection\n......Page 154
Works cited\n......Page 158
Introduction\n......Page 160
Slavery, abolitionism and travel writing\n......Page 162
Weeping\n......Page 164
Listening\n......Page 169
Conclusion\n......Page 173
Works cited\n......Page 175
Chewing on slavery\n......Page 178
The strategic traveller\n......Page 181
The travelling slave\n......Page 187
Notes\n......Page 191
Works cited\n......Page 192
Paradise found\n......Page 194
Fertile imagination\n......Page 199
The Fall of Tahiti\n......Page 200
Love in idleness\n......Page 202
All work and no play...\n......Page 205
Re-shaping, re-writing\n......Page 206
From sexuality to sentimentality\n......Page 209
Notes\n......Page 211
Works cited\n......Page 212
12. Writing the Southern Cross: Religious Travel Writing in Nineteenth-Century Australasia, by Anna Johnston\n......Page 216
British visions of Australasia\n......Page 217
Religious travellers and narratives\n......Page 220
Religious travel writing and representation\n......Page 224
Notes\n......Page 230
Works cited\n......Page 231
13. A Young Writer\'s Journey into the New Zealand Interior: Katherine Mansfield\'s \'The Urewera Notebook\' by Anne Maxwell......Page 234
Aesthetic versus realist style\n......Page 235
An authentic New Zealand\n......Page 239
Mansfield and the Tuhoe\n......Page 243
Mansfield and settler culture\n......Page 245
A modern sensibility: Old world versus New\n......Page 247
Notes\n......Page 248
Works cited\n......Page 250
Further Reading\n......Page 252
Index\n......Page 256