Colonial tours : the leisure and anxiety of empire in travel writing from Java, Ceylon and the straits settlements, 1840-1875

Defence date: 11 October 2019 ; Examining Board: Prof Jorge Flores, European University Institute, (Supervisor); Prof Lucy Riall, European University Institute; Prof Marieke Bloembergen, Leiden University; Dr Mark Frost, University of Essex ; This thesis examines the development and transformation of mid-nineteenth-century colonialism on Dutch Java and the British colonies of Ceylon and the Straits Settlements through a carefully contextualized, critical analysis of the corpus of popular colonial travel writing published on these areas in Dutch and English in the period. The analysis is undert... Mehr ...