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The highly civilized man : Richard Burton and the Victorian world /
Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures. A soldier, explorer, ethnographer, and polyglot of rare power, as well as a poet, travel writer, and translator of the tales of the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, Burton exercised his abundant talents in a diverse array of...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London :
Harvard University Press,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. The Gypsy
- II. The Orientalist
- III. The Impersonator
- IV. The Explorer
- V. The Racist
- VI. The Relativist
- VII. The Sexologist
- VIII. The Afterlife
- A Note on Sources
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index