Leslie Allin

Penetrating Critiques

Emasculated Empire and Victorian Identity in Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Penetrating Critiques pairs Victorian literary texts set in Africa with archival texts in order to explore the fraught problem of British masculinity and its construction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781487501525
• ISBN-10: 1487501528
• Artikelnr.: 59080416

Autorenporträt

Leslie Allin is an independent scholar with affiliations with the University of Guelph.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Ruptures in Adventure Romance
1. Permeable Boundaries: Violence and Fantasy in Zululand
2. H. Rider Haggard’s Inversions: Vulnerability and the Narrative
Volatility of Imperial Romance
Part II: Gothic Penetrations
3. Transgression and Loss: General Gordon and Gothic Imagination
4. Marsh’s Perforations: Desire, Imperial Decay, and the Narrative
Instability of The Beetle
Part III: Modernist Dissolutions
5. Bodily Disintegrations: Forensic Exposure and the Human Leopard Society
in Sierra Leone
6. Getting to the Hearts of Darkness
Works Cited