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(Sorbonne University, France)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 256 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 498 g
  • Sari: Empires in Perspective
  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2009
  • Kirjastus: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 185196620X
  • ISBN-13: 9781851966202
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 256 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 498 g
  • Sari: Empires in Perspective
  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2009
  • Kirjastus: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 185196620X
  • ISBN-13: 9781851966202
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Features a collection of essays that focus on British travel narratives from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth centuries. This work investigates how the early explorers' sense of self was destabilised by encounters with the Other.

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'This collection will heighten awareness of travel narratives as rich, multifaceted sources and promote nuanced, subtle, and probing analysis of these texts and what they reveal about their authors' intentions and experiences of encounter.' Itinerario

Introduction: Articulating Empire's Unstable Zones
Frederic Regard
1
I. Fantasy, Wonder and Mimicry: Proto-Ethnography from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
1 Encountering Africa: Uses of the Other in The Book of John Mandeville (1357)
Kofi Campbell
19
2 Naming the Other, Claiming the Other in Early Modern Accounts of First Encounters: from Mandeville to John Nichol' (1607) and Richard Jobson (1623)
Ladan Niayesh and Nick Myers
29
3 False Play and Dumb Show in The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake (1628)
Sophie Lemercier-Goddard
39
4 'Wateralf Goes Native: Describing First Encounters in Sir Walter Ralegh's The Discovery of Guiana (1596)
Line Cottegnies
51
II. Distance in Question: Translating the Other in the Eighteenth Century
5 Domestication and Recognition of the Other in John Lawson's A New Voyage to Carolina (1709)
Robert Sayre
63
6 The (He)art of First Encounter at Tahiti: Samuel Wallis's Conflicts of Interest (1767)
Sandhya Patel
71
7 Distance and Proximity in James Cook's First Voyage around the World (1768-1771)
Anne Dromart
83
8 Walking in the Contact Zone: Georg Forster and the Peripatetic Mode of Exploration (1768-1777)
Christian Moser
97
9 The Disorder of Things: Empiricism and the Cartographic Enterprise, or, the Observations of Samuel Hearne (1795) and Alexander Mackenzie (1801)
Cheryl Cundell
107
III. Stereotypes Undermined: Shifting the Self in the Nineteenth Century
10 John Franklin and the Idea of North: Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-1822
Catherine Lanone
119
11 'Cultivating that Mutual Friendship': Commerce, Diplomacy and Self-Representation in Hugh Clapperton's Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo (1829)
Anne-Pascale Bruneau
131
12 Trying to Understand: James Tod among the Rajputs (1829, 1832)
Florence D'Souza
141
13 'Shifting Perspectives: Visual Representation and the Imperial 'I' in Anna Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada' (1838)
Jennifer Scott
153
14 Charles Darwin in Patagonia: Descriptive Strategies in the Beagle Diary (1831-1836) and The Voyage of the Beagle (1845)
Virginia Richter
167
15 Fieldwork as Self-Harrowing: Richard Burton's Cultural Evolution (1851-1856)
Frederic Regard
179
16 Fictionalizing the Encounter with the Other: Henry Morton Stanley and the African Wilderness (1872-1890)
Nicoletta Brazzelli
193
Notes 203
Works Cited 227
Index 239
Frederic Regard