{"product_id":"exploring-victorian-travel-literature-jessica-howell-9781399567558","title":"Exploring Victorian Travel Literature: Disease, Race and Climate","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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 Joseph Conrad are placed in dialogue with minority writers such as Mary Seacole and Africanus Horton in order to understand their different approaches to representing white illness abroad. The project also considers postcolonial texts such as Wilson Harris's \u003ci\u003ePalace of the Peacock \u003c\/i\u003eto demonstrate that authors continue to 'write back' to the legacy of colonialism by using images of illness from climate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Howell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399567551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399567558\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d","brand":"Jessica Howell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997607866623,"sku":"9781399567558","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/exploring-victorian-travel-literature-jessica-howell-9781399567558","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}