Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation
Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field.
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Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field.
List of illustrationsPreface1Introduction: Criticism in the contact zone1Pt. IScience and sentiment, 1750-18002Science, planetary consciousness, interiors153Narrating the anti-conquest384Anti-conquest II: The mystique of reciprociry695Eros and abolition86Pt. IIThe reinvention of America, 1800-506Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of America1117Reinventing America II: The capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales1448Reinventing America/Reinventing Europe: Creole self-fashioning172Pt. IIIImperial stylistics, 1860-19809From the Victoria Nyanza to the Sheraton San Salvador201Notes229Index251
