Paradise or pandemonium? West African landscapes in the travel accounts of Victorian women

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)



Description :
The A. explores how women travel writers contributed to the popular geographies of West Africa in Victorian Britain and, more specifically, investigates the extent to which the images contained in their narratives were informed by, or challenged, Britain's myth of the Dark Continent during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. She analyses how the temporal context of the journey, the evolving nature of British imperial culture, and ideas about romanticism and wilderness were important factors in the landscapes descriptions.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Journal of historical geography, issn : 0305-7488, 1996, vol. 22, n°. 1, p. 68-83, Collation : Illustration

Date :
1996

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London ; New York, NY ; San Francisco, CA, Academic Press