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Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siécle Literature (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture)
Robbie McLaughlan
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
Explores the fin de sicle mission to open up the 'Dark Continent'
This study maps the effects of a cartographic blankness in literature and its impact upon early Modernist culture, through the nascent discipline of psychoanalysis and the debt that Freud owed to African exploration. It demonstrates that tales of intrepid exploration and of dramatic cultural encounters between indigenous populations - often serialised in missionary magazines - had a profound influence on every facet of late Victorian and early Modernist culture. As Robbie McLaughlan shows, this influence manifested itself most clearly in the late Victorian 'best-seller' which blended this arcane ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748647156
SKU
V9780748647156
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