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Description

1. viii, 220 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

1. 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.

Series statement

1. Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Uniform title

1. Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Subject

1. 1800-1899
2. English literature > African influences
3. English prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism
4. Travelers' writings, English > Africa > History and criticism
5. Travelers > Africa > 19th century
6. Violence > Africa > History > 19th century
7. British > Africa > History > 19th century
8. Imperialism in literature
9. Violence in literature
10. British
11. English prose literature
12. Literature
13. Travel > Historiography
14. Travelers
15. Travelers' writings, English
16. Violence
17. Reisbeschrijvingen
18. Engels
19. Geweld
20. Imperialisme
21. Africa > Description and travel > Historiography
22. Africa > In literature
23. Africa

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History.

Contents

1. 1. "The Devil's own tattoo": prefiguring imperial sovereignty in exploration narratives. Sovereign marks ; Sovereign mercy ; Sovereign medicine ; Concluding remarks -- 2. "A pulpy mass of churned-up flesh": exploring the complexity of pulverization. The causes and conduct of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition ; Mutilation and pulverization in public discourse about the Expedition ; Travel is dead, long live Empire -- 3. Damaged bodies and imperial ideology in the travel fiction of Haggard, Schreiner, and Conrad: Blood, guts, and glory. Rider Haggard and anachronistic violence ; "The noblest attributes of an imperial rule": Schreiner and victimhood in Southern Africa ; Restraining the "unlawful soul" in Heart of darkness -- 4. Blurring boundaries, forming a discipline: violence and anthropological collecting. The case of the overzealous zoologist ; Of skulls and skeletons ; Science and suffering on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition ; Bodies and cultural anthropology ; Concluding remarks -- 5. "Tongues cocked and loaded": women travel writers and verbal violence. Amelia Edwards: appropriating Arabic maledictions ; Cornelia Speedy: winning wordy tussles ; Mary Kingsley: wide-ranging linguistic mastery ; Marginalization, empowerment, and the written word.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.