Book ID: CBB998942839

Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900: Intercultural Dynamics in the Production of British Expeditionary Literature (2019)

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Wisnicki, Adrian S (Author)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 224
Language: English

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Foliard, Daniel
Nilanjana Mukherjee
Mulich, Jeppe
Bryant, Raymond L
Wisnicki, Adrian S
Voigt, Isabel
Concepts
Colonialism
Great Britain, colonies
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Imperialism
Geography
Medicine
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
Early modern
Places
Great Britain
India
Africa
China
South Africa
Sydney (Australia)
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