Re Imagining The Dark Continent In Fin De Siecle Literature

Author : Robbie McLaughlan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748647163
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siecle Literature written by Robbie McLaughlan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps the fin de siecle 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 siecle 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.

Author : Robbie McLaughlan
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ISBN 13 : 9780748672325
Total Pages : 237 pages
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Download or read book Re-imagining the 'dark Continent' in Fin de Siècle Literature written by Robbie McLaughlan and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."--Publisher's website.

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Total Pages : 174 pages
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Total Pages : 784 pages
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Download or read book Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Mazower
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030755550X
Total Pages : 509 pages
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Download or read book Dark Continent written by Mark Mazower and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-05-20 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future. "[A] splendid book." —The New York Times Book Review Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political solutions that battled and sometimes triumphed in an effort to determine the course the continent would take. Mark Mazower strips away myths that have comforted us since World War II, revealing Europe as an entity constantly engaged in a bloody project of self-invention. Here is a history not of inevitable victories and forward marches, but of narrow squeaks and unexpected twists, where townships boast a bronze of Mussolini on horseback one moment, only to melt it down and recast it as a pair of noble partisans the next.

Author : Talia Schaffer
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
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Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Culture at the Fin de Siècle written by Talia Schaffer and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2007 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unprecedented comprehensive anthology of short canonical readings on important topics in fin-de-siècle literature offers the most prominent examples of poetry, fiction, prose, and drama for thorough in-depth study. This anticipated collection features non-canonical stories, poems, and articles alongside well-known works by fin-de-siècle authors. By bringing to the forefront the definition and the significance of the fin-de-siècle movement, this anthology involves the reader in a continual scholarly endeavor. Organized into two thematic units, "Aestheticism" and "The New Women," this text includes a range of authors: from Wilde and Kipling to Housman and Pater. Annotations and unit introductions supply brief, informative explanations to aid comprehension.

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Total Pages : 856 pages
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Download or read book Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 446 pages
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Download or read book Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sondra M. Archimedes
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Total Pages : 536 pages
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Download or read book Gendered Pathologies written by Sondra M. Archimedes and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : André Philippus Brink
Publisher : Zoland Books, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
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Download or read book Reinventing a Continent written by André Philippus Brink and published by Zoland Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging in tone from dispassionate historical overview to bare-knuckles polemic, these essays chronicle South Africa's willful transformation from repressive police state to emerging democracy.