Exploring Victorian travel literature : disease, race and climate / Jessica Howell.

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...

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Main Author: Howell, Jessica
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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