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Picturesque Burma: British Travel Writing 1890–1914

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2004

Stephen L. Keck
Affiliation:
The History Department, National University of Singapore. His e-mail contact is [email protected]

Abstract

With the end of effective resistance to British rule after the Third Anglo-Burmese War, Burma experienced significant economic growth, which led to larger numbers of foreign travellers going there. This article traces the publications of three travel writers – Mrs Ernst (Alice) Hart, R. Talbot Kelley and V. C. Scott O'Connor – by investigating the ways in which they relied on the concept of ‘picturesque’ to understand Burmese landscapes.

Type
Articles
Copyright
© 2004 The National University of Singapore

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