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Media type:
Book
Title:
Victorian travel writing and imperial violence
:
British writing on Africa ; 1855 - 1902
Contains:
Acknowledgements - Introduction - "The Devil's Own Tattoo": Prefiguring Imperial Sovereignty in Exploration Narratives - "A Pulpy Mass of Churned-Up Flesh": Exploring the Complexity of Pulverization - Damaged Bodies and Imperial Ideology in the Travel Fiction of Haggard, Schreiner, and Conrad - Blurring Boundaries, Forming a Discipline: Violence and Anthropological Collecting - "Tongues Cocked and Loaded": Women Travel Writers and Verbal Violence - Epilogue - Notes - Works Cited - Primary Sources - Secondary Source
Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
This study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian travellers' 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 19th 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.