Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900
€225.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780367207458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adrian S. Wisnicki |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Number of pages | 206 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.432 |
| Publishing Date | 21/03/2019 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €213.11 |
| Tax | €12.79 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €225.90 |
| Availability | 1 unit in external warehouse |
Product Description
Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900: Intercultural Dynamics in the Production of British Expeditionary Literature examines the impact of non-western cultural, political, and social forces and agencies on the production of British expeditionary literature; it is a project of recovery. The book argues that such non-western impact was considerable, that it shaped the discursive and material dimensions of expeditionary literature, and that the impact extends to diverse materials from the expeditionary archive at a scale and depth that critics have previously not acknowledged. The focus of the study falls on Victorian expeditionary literature related to Africa, a continent of accelerating British imperial interest in the nineteenth century, but the study’s findings have the potential to inform scholarship on European expeditionary, imperial, and colonial literature from a wide variety of periods and locations. The book’s analysis is illustrative, not comprehensive. Each chapter targets intercultural encounters and expeditionary literature associated with a specific time period and African region or location. The book suggests that future scholarship – especially in areas such as expeditionary history, geography, cartography, travel writing studies, and book history – needs to adopt much more of a localized, non-western focus if it is to offer a full account of the production of expeditionary discourse and literature.