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Title:

British narratives of exploration : case studies of the self and other / edited by Frederic Regard.

Publisher:

Pickering & Chatto,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

247 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.
Geographical discoveries in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Intercultural communication in literature.
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
English prose literature--17th century--History and criticism.
English prose literature--18th century--History and criticism.
English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Regard, Frédéric.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

III Fictionalizing the Encounter with the Other : Henry Morton Stanley and the African Wilderness (1872-1890) / Nicoletta Brazzelli. I Fantasy, Wonder and Mimicry: Proto-Ethnography from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Encountering Africa : Uses of the Other in The Book of John Mandeville (1357) / Kofi Campbell ; Naming the Other : Claiming the Other in Early Modern Accounts of First Encounters : from Mandeville to John Nicholl (1607) and Richard Jobson (1623) / Ladan Niayesh and Nick Myers ; False Play and Dumb Show in The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake (1628) / Sophie Lemercier-Goddard ; Waterali Goes Native: Describing First Encounters in Sir Walter Ralegh's The Discovery of Guiana (1596) / Line Cottegnies -- II Distance in Question : Translating the Other in the Eighteenth Century. Domestication and Recognition of the Other in John Lawson's A New Voyage to Carolina (1709) / Robert Sayre ; The (He)art of First Encounter at Tahiti : Samuel Wallis's Conflicts of Interest (1767) / Sandhya Patel ; Distance and Proximity in James Cook's First Voyage around the World (1768-1771) / Anne Dromart ; Walking in the Contact Zone: Georg Forster and the Peripatetic Mode of Exploration (1768-1777) / Christian Moser ; The Disorder of Things: Empiricism and the Cartographic Enterprise, or, the Observations of Samuel Hearne (1795) and Alexander Mackenzie (1801) / Cheryl Cundell -- III Stereotypes Undermined: Shifting the Self in the Nineteenth Century. 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 ; 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 ; Trying to Understand: James Tod among the Rajputs (1829, 1832) / Florence D'Souza ; Shifting Perspectives: Visual Representation and the Imperial I in Anna Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838) / Jennifer Scott ; Charles Darwin in Patagonia: Descriptive Strategies in the Beagle Diary (1831-1836) and The Voyage of the Beagle (1845) / Virginia Richter ; Fieldwork as Self-Harrowing : Richard Burton's Cultural Evolution (1851-1856) / Frederic Regard ; Fictionalizing the Encounter with the Other : Henry Morton Stanley and the African Wilderness (1872-1890) / Nicoletta Brazzelli.

Series:

Empires in perspective ; no. 9

ISBN:

9781851966202
185196620X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)311230397

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)