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This study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian travelers' descriptions of physical and verbal violence in Africa. Travel narratives provide a rich entry into the shifting meanings of colonialism, as formal imperialism replaced informal control in the Nineteenth century. Offering a wide-ranging approach to travel literature's significance in Victorian life, this book features analysis of physical and verbal violence in major exploration narratives as well as lesser-known volumes and newspaper accounts of expeditions. It also presents new perspectives on Olive Schreiner and Joseph Conrad by linking violence in their fictional travelogues with the rhetoric of humanitarian trusteeship.
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About the author
LAURA E. FRANEY is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. She specializes in Victorian literature, postcolonial literature, and the history of the novel.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence
Book Subtitle: British Writing on Africa, 1855-1902
Authors: Laura E. Franey
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510036
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-0508-6Published: 14 October 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50970-6Published: 01 January 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51003-6Published: 14 October 2003
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 220
Topics: Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory