Victorian Travel Writing And Imperial Violence: British Writing On Africa, 1855-1902 (palgrave Studies In Nineteenth-century Writing And Culture)

at Millsaps -with whom I have enjoyed movies, camping trips, baseball games, costume parties, and the general high points and low points of academic life. Sangeeta Mehta, whom I first met in an undergraduate seminar, continues to be a kind and nonjudgmental friend. Family relationships have also been very significant over the near-decade of devotion that has led to this book's publication. I would like to thank my grandparents, James and Madeline Carlin, my parents, Jamie and Larry Franey, my sisters, Lynn, Janet, and Jordan, and my brothers, John and Lance, for being interested in the work I was engaged in and for not stopping me when I occasionally launched into what they no doubt considered long-winded disquisitions on abstruse topics. For helping initiate and nurture my interest in British life and culture, I am grateful to Desmond and Dorina Sweeney and Danielle Price. Along with their adult children Laurence, Michael, and Mary, the Sweeneys gave me my first taste of life in the United Kingdom when I stayed with them in Swansea, South Wales, in 1980. On my second trip to the UK, a trip that came together hurriedly but that proved rewarding professionally and personally, Danielle graciously showed me the research ropes at the British Library (and never complained about my driving during our visit to the Lake District and Edinburgh). I owe an immense debt to Joseph Bristow -the editor of this series but also a mentor and friend whose zest for life inspires me. A great deal of what I know about teaching, research, writing, and service has come from observing Joe in action as he fearlessly takes on new projects, researches thoroughly for his articles and books, closely supervises graduate student teachers and researchers, and creates and maintains friendships. Not only is Joe the hardest-working person I know, he is also the best close reader I have encountered. For his careful reading of various drafts and his subtle shaping of my writing style, I am very thankful. Most of all, though, I am indebted to Boty McDonald, a remarkable man whose ability to make each person he meets feel special and valuable has transformed my life. viii Acknowledgements Because travel narratives chronicle daily interactions between Europeans and Africans in the literal and figurative region Mary Louise Pratt calls the "contact zone," they provide a rich entry into the development of colonial rule in Africa during the second half of the nineteenth century. Drawing upon literary, historical, anthropological, and feminist approaches to travel writing, this book features analysis of the physical and verbal violence employed by legendary and prolific travelers including Henry M. Stanley, Samuel Baker, and Mary Kingsley, as they sought to gain and keep authority during their journeys. It also presents new perspectives on early Modernist authors Olive Schreiner and Joseph Conrad by linking the violence in their turn-of-the-century fictional travelogues - Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897) and Heart of Darkness (1902) - with the rhetoric of humanitarian trusteeship that undergirded the perpetuation of European imperial rule through the 1950s This study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian travelers' descriptions of physical and verbal violence in Africa. Travel narratives provide a rich entry into the shifting meanings of colonialism, as formal imperialism replaced informal control in the Nineteenth century. Offering a wide-ranging approach to travel literature's significance in Victorian life, this book features analysis of physical and verbal violence in major exploration narratives as well as lesser-known volumes and newspaper accounts of expeditions. It also presents new perspectives on Olive Schreiner and Joseph Conrad by linking violence in their fictional travelogues with the rhetoric of humanitarian trusteeship. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Introduction....Pages 1-9 “The Devil’s Own Tattoo”: Prefiguring Imperial Sovereignty in Exploration Narratives....Pages 10-46 “A Pulpy Mass of Churned-Up Flesh”: Exploring the Complexity of Pulverization....Pages 47-66 Damaged Bodies and Imperial Ideology in the Travel Fiction of Haggard, Schreiner, and Conrad....Pages 67-111 Blurring Boundaries, Forming a Discipline: Violence and Anthropological Collecting....Pages 112-146 “Tongues Cocked and Loaded”: Women Travel Writers and Verbal Violence....Pages 147-171 Epilogue....Pages 172-173 Back Matter....Pages 174-220

travel Narratives Provide A Rich Entry Into The Shifting Meanings Of Colonialism As Formal Imperialism Replaced Informal Control In The Nineteenth Century. Offering A Wide-ranging Approach To Travel Literature's Significance In Victorian Life, This Book Features Analysis Of Physical And Verbal Violence In Major Exploration Narratives As Well As Lesser-known Volumes And Newspaper Accounts Of Expeditions. It Also Presents New Perspectives On Olive Schreiner And Joseph Conrad By Linking Violence In Their Fictional Travelogues With The Rhetoric Of Humanitarian Trusteeship.

The immense scale of many Victorian exploring expeditions and the staying power of travelers such as David Livingstone and Henry Stanley in popular legend have combined to make Victorian travel literature appear well suited to a theatrical vocabulary. Offering a wide-ranging approach to travel literature's significance in Victorian life, this study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian travellers' descriptions of physical and verbal violence in Africa