{"product_id":"penetrating-critiques-emasculated-empire-and-victorian-identity-in-africa-hardback-9781487501525","title":"Penetrating Critiques; Emasculated Empire and Victorian Identity in Africa (Hardback) 9781487501525","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePenetrating Critiques\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEmasculated Empire and Victorian Identity in Africa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLeslie Allin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487501525\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 November 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 21 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.7 x 3.6 cm, 0.62 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In an analysis that straddles [...] the binary critical history of \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e, Allin evokes the complexity and complicity of Conrad\u0026amp;#x2019;s narrative. An epilogue on representations of empire after 9\/11 brings the argument into the 21st century.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - N. Birns, New York University (\u003cem\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"In her well-researched and well-written study, Leslie Allin traces signs of anxiety in a range of texts about Africa from the last quarter of the nineteenth century, including archival documents, newspaper reports, and popular fiction.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Jochen Petzold, University of Regensburg (\u003ci\u003eVictorian Periodicals Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing the intersections between archival documents and immensely popular adventure fiction set in Africa, \u003ci\u003ePenetrating Critiques\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the anxieties surrounding the vulnerability of the white male body by assessing the destabilization of narrative itself. The author considers texts ranging from private letters, governmental correspondence, periodicals, and archival documents to the popular works of H. Rider Haggard, Richard Marsh, and Joseph Conrad. These texts trouble the notions of bounded male bodies, impermeable histories, and solid virtues while underscoring the grotesqueness of male forms, narratives, and moralities. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlthough dominant representations of martial bodies frequently emphasized boundaries, containment, and solidity, the fiction and imperial archives explored in this book expose problems of stability through tropes, images, and material evidence of perforation, penetration, and dissolution. In emphasizing the relationship between institutional imperial writing and popular discourse,\u003ci\u003e Penetrating Critiques\u003c\/i\u003e reveals that more complex, fraught, and critical approaches to imperialism and masculinity were circulating throughout Victorian culture than previously recognized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Ruptures in Adventure Romance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Permeable Boundaries: Violence and Fantasy in Zululand \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. H. Rider Haggard\u0026amp;#x2019;s Inversions: Vulnerability and the Narrative Volatility of Imperial Romance \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Gothic Penetrations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Transgression and Loss: General Gordon and Gothic Imagination \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Marsh\u0026amp;#x2019;s Perforations: Desire, Imperial Decay, and the Narrative Instability of The Beetle \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Modernist Dissolutions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Bodily Disintegrations: Forensic Exposure and the Human Leopard Society in Sierra Leone \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Getting to the Hearts of Darkness \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595449626904,"sku":"9781487501525","price":44.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/penetrating-critiques-emasculated-empire-and-victorian-identity-in-africa-hardback-9781487501525","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}