Abstract
In this article, Julie F. Codell examines the rhetorical turns and themes of travel accounts written in the late nineteenth century by Indian travelers to Europe, demonstrating how their guest narratives structured comparisons between Britain and India in particular, comparisons that at once sublimated and remained invisible to imperial power relationships. The essay shows the way in which these travelers wrote back to the genre of travel accounts by appropriating, reversing, and ironizing its conventions-including its ethnographic posture, the aristocratic Grand Tour, and the celebration of hospitality-as well as its specific vocabulary. Seeing Britain as at once utopia and dystopia, these writers projected an empowering atopia, which allowed them to imagine the future of India.
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