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Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence

British Writing on Africa, 1855-1902

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  • © 2003

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  1. Laura E. Franey
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Laura E. Franey
    Pages 1-9

  3. “The Devil’s Own Tattoo”: Prefiguring Imperial Sovereignty in Exploration Narratives

    • Laura E. Franey
    Pages 10-46

  4. “A Pulpy Mass of Churned-Up Flesh”: Exploring the Complexity of Pulverization

    • Laura E. Franey
    Pages 47-66

  5. Damaged Bodies and Imperial Ideology in the Travel Fiction of Haggard, Schreiner, and Conrad

    • Laura E. Franey
    Pages 67-111

  6. Blurring Boundaries, Forming a Discipline: Violence and Anthropological Collecting

    • Laura E. Franey
    Pages 112-146

  7. “Tongues Cocked and Loaded”: Women Travel Writers and Verbal Violence

    • Laura E. Franey
    Pages 147-171

  8. Epilogue

    • Laura E. Franey
    Pages 172-173

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 174-220
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This study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian travelers' descriptions of physical and verbal violence in Africa. 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.

About the author

LAURA E. FRANEY is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. She specializes in Victorian literature, postcolonial literature, and the history of the novel.

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