Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures.
A soldier, explorer, ethnographer, and polyglot of rare power, as
well as a poet, travel writer, and translator of the tales of the
Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, Burton exercised his abundant
talents in a diverse array of endeavors. Though best remembered as
an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source
of the White Nile, Burton traveled so widely, wrote so
prolifically, and contributed so forcefully to his generation's
most contentious debates that he provides us with a singularly
panoramic perspective on the world of the Victorians.
One of the great challenges confronting the British in the
nineteenth century was to make sense of the multiplicity of peoples
and cultures they encountered in their imperial march around the
globe. Burton played an important role in this mission. Drawing on
his wide-ranging experiences in other lands and intense curiosity
about their inhabitants, he conducted an intellectually ambitious,
highly provocative inquiry into racial, religious, and sexual
differences that exposed his own society's norms to scrutiny.
Dane Kennedy offers a fresh and compelling examination of
Burton and his contribution to the widening world of the
Victorians. He advances the view that the Victorians' efforts to
attach meaning to the differences they observed among other peoples
had a profound influence on their own sense of self, destabilizing
identities and reshaping consciousness. Engagingly written and
vigorously argued, "The Highly Civilized Man" is an important
contribution to our understanding of a remarkable man and a crucial
era.
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