Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence
This study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian travelers' descriptions of physical and verbal violence in Africa. Travel narratives provide a rich entry into the shifting meanings of colonialism, as formal imperialism replaced informal control in the Nineteenth century. Offering a wide-ranging approach to travel literature's significance in Victorian life, this book features analysis of physical and verbal violence in major exploration narratives as well as lesser-known volumes and newspaper accounts of expeditions. It also presents new perspectives on Olive Schreiner and Joseph Conrad by linking violence in their fictional travelogues with the rhetoric of humanitarian trusteeship.
| Autor: | Franey, Laura E. |
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| ISBN: | 9781403905086 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer Nature EN |
| Veröffentlicht: | 14.10.2003 |
| Untertitel: | British Writing on Africa, 1855-1902 |
| Schlagworte: | B British and Irish Literature British literature Cultural Studies Cultural Theory Culture—Study and teaching European Literature Fiction Fiction Literature Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary theory Literature, Modern—19th century Literature: history & criticism Literature—Philosophy Nineteenth-Century Literature Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection complexity;fiction;Narrative;rhetoric;Victorian era |
LAURA E. FRANEY is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. She specializes in Victorian literature, postcolonial literature, and the history of the novel.