Re-imagining the 'dark continent' in fin de siècle literature /

Re-imagining the 'dark continent' in fin de siècle literature /

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Author / Creator:	McLaughlan, Robert, author.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012. ©2012
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 237 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Subject:	English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Adventure and adventurers in literature. Popular culture -- History -- 19th century. Adventure and adventurers in literature. Discoveries in geography. English literature. Literature. Popular culture. Africa -- In literature. Africa -- Discovery and exploration. Africa. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11170461

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ISBN:	9780748647163 0748647163 0748672311 9780748672318 9780748672325 074867232X 9780748647156 0748647155 9780748672318 1283989662 9781283989664
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Maps the fin de siÃ·cle mission to open up the 'Dark Continent'<.i> Although nineteenth-century map-makers imposed topographic definition upon a perceived geographical void, writers of Adventure fiction, and other colonial writers, continued to nourish the idea of a cartographic absence in their work. This study explores the effects of this epistemological blankness in fin de siÃ·cle literature, and its impact upon early Modernist culture, through the emerging discipline of psychoanalysis and the debt that Freud owed to African exploration. The chapters examine: representations of Black Africa in missionary writing and Rider Haggard's narratives on Africa; cartographic tradition in Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections; and mesmeric fiction, such as Richard Marsh's The Beetle, Robert Buchanan's The Charlatan and George du Maurier's Trilby. As Robbie McLaughlan demonstrates, it was the late Victorian 'best-seller' which merged an arcane Central African imagery with an interest in psychic phenomena. Key Features:. * Opens up the 'dark continent' and its literary, historical and theoretical manifestations * Argues for an anticipation of a modernist aesthetic suggesting an unexplored relation between fin de siÃ·cle sensation literature, in particular mesmeric fiction, and psychoanalysis * Diverges from established colonial histories by drawing on an archive of special and neglected material Keywords:. postcolonial, psychoanalysis, fin de siÃ·cle, mesmerism, colonial, missionary, cartography
Other form:	Print version: McLaughlan, Robert. Re-imagining the 'dark continent' in fin de siècle literature. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012 9780748647156

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (viii, 237 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780748647163 0748647163 0748672311 9780748672318 9780748672325 074867232X 9780748647156 0748647155 1283989662 9781283989664