ABSTRACT

In 1892, The Times journalist Flora Shaw, recovering from influenza, set off for Cape Town. Shaw expanded this tour, on her own initiative, going inland in South Africa, and making a tour of Australia as well. These articles were intended to act as a report on the political and economic state of the empire. They were also a platform for Shaw to advance her desire for a more integrated Greater Britain by utilising literary methods of travel writing, and vividly describing the empire in order to advocate emigration. This article builds upon work on imperial representation to consider how emigration to the settler colonies could be presented to a British economic and political elite in the readership of The Times. Shaw used these ‘imagined geographies of empire’ and the representation of imperial landscapes as devices for presenting the colonies as excitingly different areas to Britain. But she also used associative description and language around these landscapes to make the colonies appear more familiar. Placing these descriptions within imperial travel writing, as well as the ideas of Greater Britain, this article argues that the associations of landscape in the empire were used to represent it as terrifying and yet homely.

摘要

1892 年，泰晤士报记者弗洛拉·肖从流感中恢复过来，启程前往开普敦。肖主动扩大了这次旅行，前往南非内陆，并参观了澳大利亚。这些文章旨在作为对帝国政治和经济状况的报告。它们也是肖通过旅行写作的文学方法来推进她对更加融合的大不列颠的渴望的平台，并生动地描述了帝国以倡导移民。本文以帝国代表的工作为基础，考虑如何将移民到定居者殖民地的行为呈现给《泰晤士报》读者群中的英国经济和政治精英。肖使用这些“想象的帝国地理”和帝国景观的表现作为手段，将殖民地呈现为与英国截然不同的地区。但她也围绕这些景观使用联想描述和语言，使殖民地显得更加熟悉。将这些描述放在帝国旅行写作中，以及大不列颠的思想，这篇文章认为，帝国中的景观联想被用来表示它既恐怖又朴实。