Author: Judith Hochstein Livingston
Publisher:
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Category : Africa in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Author: Peter J Kitson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000558991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.

Author: Joseph P. Natoli
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317381203
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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First published in 1982 this book provides a bibliography of commentary, criticism, and scholarship on the works of William Blake. It covers the period from Northrop Frye’s Fearful Symmetry in 1947 to 1980. The criticism is organised according to eleven classifications in order to help direct the research of students and scholars and each chapter is preceded by an introductory essay in order to guide the reader.

Author: Timothy Youngs
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152612372X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness.

Author:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Author: David Dabydeen
Publisher: Manchester [Greater Manchester] ; Dover, N.H., USA : Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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This collection of essays surveys the depiction of black people in English Literature from Shakespeare to contemporary popular fiction.

Author: Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. National Museum of African Art Branch
Publisher: G. K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 848

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Author:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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