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Autore |
Livingstone Justin D. |
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Titolo |
Livingstone's 'lives' : A metabiography of a Victorian icon / / Justin D. Livingstone |
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Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2014 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-84779-913-2 |
1-78170-795-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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Rezeption |
Popular culture |
Literature |
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
Explorers |
Popular culture - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Explorers - Scotland |
Explorers - Africa, Southern |
History |
Biography |
Electronic books. |
Scotland |
Great Britain |
Africa, Southern |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Bio-diversity : metabiographical method -- Styling the self : making Missionary travels -- Death : lamenting Livingstone -- Empire : imperial afterlives -- Nation : Scotland's son -- Fiction : laughing at Livingstone? -- Revisionism : sins, psyche, sex. |
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This study interrogates the heterogeneous nature of Livingstone's |
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legacy and explores the plurality of identities that he has posthumously acquired. Investigating Livingstone's own self-staging, his Victorian commemoration, his imperialist and Scottish reputations, and his afterlife in postcolonial fiction and drama, it offers the first full exploration of his many incarnations over a lengthy chronological period. |
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