Imperial Eyes | Travel Writing and Transculturation | Mary Louise Prat

ABSTRACT

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction: Criticism in the contact zone

part |2 pages

Part I Science and sentiment, 1750–1800

chapter 2|23 pages

Science, planetary consciousness, interiors

chapter 3|31 pages

Narrating the anti-conquest

chapter 4|17 pages

Anti-conquest II: The mystique of reciprocity

chapter 5|23 pages

Eros and abolition

part |2 pages

Part II The reinvention of América, 1800–50

chapter 6|33 pages

Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of América

chapter 7|28 pages

Reinventing América II: The capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales

chapter 8|27 pages

Reinventing América/Reinventing Europe: Creole self-fashioning

part |2 pages

Part III Imperial stylistics, 1860–1980

chapter 9|27 pages

From the Victoria Nyanza to the Sheraton San Salvador