Title Victorian travel writing and imperial violence : British writing on Africa, 1855-1902 / Laura E. Franey

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 220 pages) : illustrations Series Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. Contents Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 'The Devil's Own Tattoo': Prefiguring Imperial Sovereignty in Exploration Narratives -- 'A Pulpy Mass of Churned-Up Flesh': Exploring the Complexity of Pulverization -- Damaged Bodies and Imperial Ideology in the Travel Fiction of Haggard, Schreiner, and Conrad -- Blurring Boundaries, Forming a Discipline: Violence and Anthropological Collecting -- 'Tongues Cocked and Loaded': Women Travel Writers and Verbal Violence -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources Summary Because travel narratives chronicle daily interactions between Europeans and Africans in the literal and figurative region Mary Louise Pratt calls the "contact zone," they provide a rich entry into the development of colonial rule in Africa during the second half of the nineteenth century. Drawing upon literary, historical, anthropological, and feminist approaches to travel writing, this book features analysis of the physical and verbal violence employed by legendary and prolific travelers including Henry M. Stanley, Samuel Baker, and Mary Kingsley, as they sought to gain and keep authority during their journeys. It also presents new perspectives on early Modernist authors Olive Schreiner and Joseph Conrad by linking the violence in their turn-of-the-century fictional travelogues - Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897) and Heart of Darkness (1902) - with the rhetoric of humanitarian trusteeship that undergirded the perpetuation of European imperial rule through the 1950s Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-211) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject English literature -- African influences. English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Travelers' writings, English -- Africa -- History and criticism Travelers -- Africa -- 19th century Violence -- Africa -- History -- 19th century British -- Africa -- History -- 19th century Imperialism in literature. Violence in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. British English literature -- African influences English prose literature Imperialism in literature Literature Travel -- Historiography Travelers Travelers' writings, English Violence Violence in literature Reisbeschrijvingen. Engels. Geweld. Imperialisme. SUBJECT Africa -- Description and travel -- Historiography Africa -- In literature Subject Africa Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230510036 0230510035 1280444258 9781280444258

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