Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900: Intercultural Dynamics in the Production of British Expeditionary Literature (Among the Victorians and Modernists)

Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900: Intercultural Dynamics within the Manufacturing of British Expeditionary Literature examines the influence of non-western cultural, political, and social forces and businesses on the manufacturing of British expeditionary literature; it’s a challenge of restoration. The e book argues that such non-western influence was appreciable, that it formed the discursive and materials dimensions of expeditionary literature, and that the influence extends to various supplies from the expeditionary archive at a scale and depth that critics have beforehand not acknowledged. The main focus of the examine falls on Victorian expeditionary literature associated to Africa, a continent of accelerating British imperial curiosity within the nineteenth century, however the examine’s findings have the potential to tell scholarship on European expeditionary, imperial, and colonial literature from all kinds of intervals and areas. The e book’s evaluation is illustrative, not complete. Every chapter targets intercultural encounters and expeditionary literature related to a particular time interval and African area or location. The e book means that future scholarship – particularly in areas resembling expeditionary historical past, geography, cartography, journey writing research, and e book historical past – must undertake way more of a localized, non-western focus whether it is to supply a full account of the manufacturing of expeditionary discourse and literature.