Livingstone's 'lives' : A metabiography of a Victorian icon /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Livingstone, Justin D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Livingstone, David, > 1813-1873.
Missionaries.
Explorers.
TRAVEL > Africa > General.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Missionnaires > Écosse > Biographies.
Missionaries > Scotland > Biography.
Explorers > Scotland > Biography.
Scotland.
Biographies.
Biography
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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 postcolonial fiction and drama, it offers the first full exploration of his many incarnations over a lengthy chronological period.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (320 pages): illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:9781847799135

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