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  title info:
    title: Penetrating critiques
    sub title: emasculated empire and Victorian identity in Africa
  name:
    name part: Allin, Leslie
    name part: 1984-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Tracing the intersections between archival documents and immensely popular adventure fiction set in Africa, Penetrating Critiques 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 archives 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. Although 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, Penetrating Critiques reveals that more complex, fraught and critical approaches to imperialism and masculinity were circulating throughout Victorian culture than previously recognized.
  note: Leslie Allin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f------
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Masculinity in literature
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism in literature
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
    topic: In literature
  classification: PR468.M38 A45 2020
  classification: 820.935309/034
  identifier: 9781487501525
  identifier: 1487501528
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 200330
    record change date: 20250308175627.8
    record identifier: in00004401354
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng