British narratives of exploration case studies of the self and other
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Pickering & Chatto
2009
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| Colección: | Empires in perspective ;
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b24438935*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Articulating Empire's Unstable Zones / Frederic Regard
- 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
