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Re-imagining the 'dark continent' in fin de siècle literature
- Title
- Re-imagining the 'dark continent' in fin de siècle literature / Robbie McLaughlan.
- Author
- McLaughlan, Robert.
- Publication
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR461 .M339 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 237 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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 work. This study explores the effects of this epistemological blankness in fin de siècle literature, and its impact upon early Modernist culture, through the emerging discipline of psychoanalysis and the debt that Freud owed to African exploration. The chapters examine: representations of Black Africa in missionary writing and Rider Haggard's narratives on Africa; cartographic tradition in Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections; and mesmeric fiction, such as Richard Marsh's The Beetle, Robert Buchanan's The Charlatan and George du Maurier's Trilby. As Robbie McLaughlan demonstrates, it was the late Victorian 'best-seller' which merged an arcane Central African imagery with an interest in psychic phenomena."--Publisher's website.
- Series Statement
- Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
- Uniform Title
- Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- 1800-talet
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Adventure and adventurers in literature
- Popular culture > History > 19th century
- Discoveries in geography
- English literature
- Literature
- Popular culture
- Englisch
- Literatur
- Afrika
- Populärkultur > historia
- Engelsk litteratur > historia
- Äventyr och äventyrare i litteraturen
- Africa > In literature
- Africa > Discovery and exploration
- Africa
- Afrika > i litteraturen
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Militibus Christi -- Behind the Black Velvet curtain -- Preaching to the nerves.
- ISBN
- 9780748647156
- 0748647155
- 9780748672318 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780748647163 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
- 9780748672325 (Amazon ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- ocn816150037
- 816150037
- SCSB-14503571
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library