Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siècle Literature /

Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siècle Literature / / Robbie McLaughlan.

Maps the fin de siècle mission to open up the 'Dark Continent'Although nineteenth-century map-makers imposed topographic definition upon a perceived geographical void, writers of Adventure fiction, and other colonial writers, continued to nourish the idea of a cartographic absence in their...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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McLaughlan, Robbie,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2012
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Introduction
  • I. Militibus Christi
  • 1. Imperial Agents
  • 2. Missionary Literature
  • 3. The Fetish
  • 4. Hegel, Freud and The Double
  • 5. The Witchdoctor
  • 6. Rider Haggard
  • II. Behind the Black Velvet Curtain
  • 7. Maps
  • 8. Olive Schreiner
  • 9. Haggard and Freud
  • III. Preaching to the Nerves
  • 10. Victorian Mesmerism
  • 11. Imperial Invisibility
  • 12. Olive Skins
  • 13. Dark Spaces
  • 14. Filthy Places
  • Conclusion
  • Index

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