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Livingstone's 'lives' : a metabiography of a Victorian icon /
This study interrogates the heterogeneous nature of Livingstone's 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 pos...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Livingstone's 'Lives'; Contents ; List of illustrations ; General editor's introduction#; Acknowledgements ; List of abbreviations and a note on spelling ; 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.