Author: Robbie McLaughlan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748647163
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Maps the fin de siecle 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 work. This study explores the effects of this epistemological blankness in fin de siecle 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.
Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siecle Literature
Author: Robbie McLaughlan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748647163
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Maps the fin de siecle 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 work. This study explores the effects of this epistemological blankness in fin de siecle 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: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748647163
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Maps the fin de siecle 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 work. This study explores the effects of this epistemological blankness in fin de siecle 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.
Re-imagining the 'dark Continent' in Fin de Siècle Literature
Author: Robbie McLaughlan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780748672325
Category : Adventure and adventurers in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
"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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780748672325
Category : Adventure and adventurers in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
"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.
Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siecle Literature
Author: Robbie McLaughlan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748672311
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Maps the fin de siecle mission to open up the 'Dark Continent'
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748672311
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Maps the fin de siecle mission to open up the 'Dark Continent'
Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Dark Continent
Author: Mark Mazower
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030755550X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
An unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future. "[A] splendid book." —The New York Times Book Review Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political solutions that battled and sometimes triumphed in an effort to determine the course the continent would take. Mark Mazower strips away myths that have comforted us since World War II, revealing Europe as an entity constantly engaged in a bloody project of self-invention. Here is a history not of inevitable victories and forward marches, but of narrow squeaks and unexpected twists, where townships boast a bronze of Mussolini on horseback one moment, only to melt it down and recast it as a pair of noble partisans the next.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030755550X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
An unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future. "[A] splendid book." —The New York Times Book Review Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political solutions that battled and sometimes triumphed in an effort to determine the course the continent would take. Mark Mazower strips away myths that have comforted us since World War II, revealing Europe as an entity constantly engaged in a bloody project of self-invention. Here is a history not of inevitable victories and forward marches, but of narrow squeaks and unexpected twists, where townships boast a bronze of Mussolini on horseback one moment, only to melt it down and recast it as a pair of noble partisans the next.
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts
Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts
Gendered Pathologies
Author: Sondra M. Archimedes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body, Human, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body, Human, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Reinventing a Continent
Author: André Philippus Brink
Publisher: Zoland Books, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Ranging in tone from dispassionate historical overview to bare-knuckles polemic, these essays chronicle South Africa's willful transformation from repressive police state to emerging democracy.
Publisher: Zoland Books, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Ranging in tone from dispassionate historical overview to bare-knuckles polemic, these essays chronicle South Africa's willful transformation from repressive police state to emerging democracy.