The Discourse of Disease Geography and Imperial Politics in The Voyage Out
The association between tropical climate and diseases was a central topic of 19th-century European colonial medicine.It is also a common theme in colonial travel literature.In The Voyage Out,Woolf portrays travelers suffering from various colonial diseases.Focusing especially on the causes of these diseases,she reveals the adverse effects of the colonial climate on British imperial expansion from three dimensions:the impact of tropical diseases on European constitutions,the pathogenization and exoticization of colonial landscapes,and the white race's imagination of the pathogenic natives.In doing so,she expresses her reflection and criticism of British imperial expansion.At the same time,however,her imaginative writing of the pathogenic landscape and the pathogenic native race also exposes that she never entirely escapes the influence of imperial ideology.
Virginia WoolfThe Voyage Outdisease geographyimperial politics
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