Routledge Travels, Explorations and Empires, 1770-1835, Part I: Travel Writings on North America, the Far East, North and South Poles and the Middle East

Product Description A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism, anthropology and slavery. Review 'exquisitely produced and impeccably edited collection offers a wealth of fresh material to scholars of Romanticism' The Wordsworth Circle 'does not pretend to be anything that it is not, and it delivers what it promises. Its extracts evoke the rawness of discovery in an age when vast portions of the atlas were blank and when large portions of the world's population lived in ignorance of each other.' Times Literary Supplement About the Author Editorial board Tim Fulford is at Nottingham Trent University, and is author of Coleridge's Figurative Language, Landscape, Liberty and Authority, and Romanticism and Masculinity Peter Kitson is at the University of Dundee, and is author of YWES, Coleridge and the Armoury of the Human Mind and is co-editor of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Tilar J Mazzeo is at Oregon State University Debbie Lee is at Washington State University Indira Ghose is at the Freie Universitat, Berlin Nigel Leask is at Queens' College, University of Cambridge