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The Fiction of Geopolitics - Afterimages of Culture, from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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The Fiction of Geopolitics - Afterimages of Culture, from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Studying a range of writers, genres, and disciplines, this book
interrogates the status of geopolitics as a powerful
twentieth-century fiction. The first part argues, through a reading
of anarchist and imperialist geographers, that geopolitics emerged
as a pseudoscience from the breakdown of nineteenth-century ideas
of culture.
The book's second part addresses the fate of the European
hypothesis of culture, beginning with a chapter that studies the
novels of Wilkie Collins within the historical context of
democratic reform and the formalization of Empire. The next chapter
finds, in the affinities between Olive Schreiner and Friedrich
Nietzsche, a shared diagnosis of the nihilist positivism and
eurocentrism of the culture hypothesis.
The third part examines the relation between the utopian globalism
of international socialism and the geopolitical dystopia of world
war. One chapter delineates the geography of politics in the 1890s
through the medium of R. B. Cunninghame Graham's political
journalism and early modernist sketch-artistry. The final chapter
traces the meaning of "sabotage" from its anarcho-syndicalist
origins to its geopolitical significance in early films of Alfred
Hitchcock.
Charting the contours of the long turn of the century, from 1860 to
1940, the book moves back and forth from Victorian to modernist
fields of study to show how the nineteenth-century European
hypothesis of culture haunts the twentieth-century fiction of
geopolitics.
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