Livingstone's 'lives' A metabiography of a Victorian icon /
Livingstone, Justin D.,author.
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.
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.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bio-diversity : metabiographical method -- Styling the self : making Missionary travels -- Death : lamenting Livingstone -- Empire : imperial afterlives -- Nation : Scotland's son -- Fiction : laughing at Livingstone? -- Revisionism : sins, psyche, sex.
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Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Livingstone, David, 1813-1873.
Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
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