Livingstone's 'lives' : a metabiography of a Victorian icon

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    • Livingstone, Justin D.

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Livingstone's 'lives' : a metabiography of a Victorian icon

Justin D. Livingstone

(Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie)

Manchester University Press, 2014

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Includes index

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内容説明

David Livingstone, the 'missionary-explorer', has attracted more commentary than nearly any other Victorian hero. Beginning in the years following his death, he soon became the subject of a major biographical tradition. Yet out of this extensive discourse, no unified image of Livingstone emerges. Rather, he has been represented in diverse ways and in a variety of socio-political contexts. Until now, no one has explored Livingstone's posthumous reputation in full. This book meets the challenge. In approaching Livingstone's complex legacy, it adopts a metabiographical perspective: in other words, this book is a biography of biographies. Rather than trying to uncover the true nature of the subject, metabiography is concerned with the malleability of biographical representation. It does not aim to uncover Livingstone's 'real' identity, but instead asks: what has he been made to mean? Crossing disciplinary boundaries, Livingstone's 'lives' will interest scholars of imperial history, postcolonialism, life-writing, travel-writing and Victorian studies. -- .

目次

1. Bio-diversity: metabiographical method 2. Styling the self: making missionary travels 3. Death: lamenting Livingstone 4. Empire: imperial afterlives 5. Nation: Scotland's son 6. Fiction: laughing at Livingstone? 7. Revisionism: sins, psyche, sex Index -- .

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    general editor, John M. MacKenzie

    Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press

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