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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Livingstone, Justin D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (320 pages): illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:9781847799135

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