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Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siecle Literature

Engelsk Hardback

Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siecle Literature

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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 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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9780748647156
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
0748647155
Udg. Dato:
31 okt 2012
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
164mm
Højde:
237mm
Forlag:
Edinburgh University Press
Oplagsdato:
31 okt 2012
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