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Penetrating critiques : emasculated empire and Victorian identity in Africa / Leslie Allin.

Allin, Leslie, 1984- author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2020
PR468.M38 A45 2020
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Title
Penetrating critiques : emasculated empire and Victorian identity in Africa / Leslie Allin.
Author
Allin, Leslie, 1984- author.
ISBN
9781487513429 (electronic book)
1487513429 (electronic book)
9781487513412 (electronic book)
1487513410 (electronic book)
Published
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource ( vi, 306 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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PR468.M38 A45 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.935309/034
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 09, 2020).
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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Bodies/Spaces/Texts
British Masculinity and the Failure of Colonial Efficacy
Part I: Ruptures in Adventure Romance
1 Permeable Boundaries: Violence and Fantasy in Zululand
2 H. Rider Haggard's Inversions: Vulnerability and the Narrative Volatility of Imperial Romance
Part II: Gothic Penetrations
3 Transgression and Loss: General Gordon and Gothic Imagination
4 Marsh's Perforations: Desire, Imperial Decay, and the Narrative Instability of The Beetle

Part III: Modernist Dissolutions
5 Bodily Disintegrations: Forensic Exposure and the Human Leopard Society in Sierra Leone
6 Expanding Darkness: Narrative Complicity
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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