The present work examines the way in which the travels and journeys
in Arabia and other Muslim lands of Richard Francis Burton, the
nineteenth-century explorer and writer have, since the influential
work of Edward W. Said on Orientalism, been somewhat undervalued by
contemporaries. It aims to offer a re-evaluation of those works and
their contribution to Victorian knowledge. It also offers a
challenge to Said's account of Burton and, particularly in the
second part of the book, looks at the negative ways in which Burton
has been viewed more generally by post-colonial theorists since
Said's influential work. A further aim of the book is to bring
together the viewpoints on Burton of the biographers and
postcolonial critics who appear to have previously worked largely
in isolation from one another. It is the author's belief that such
a union will lead to a mutually beneficial process of
cross-fertilisation that will reveal a more complicated-and also
more accurate-Burton for detailed future consideration and
discussion.
General
Imprint: |
Lap Lambert Academic Publishing
|
Country of origin: |
Germany |
Release date: |
November 2011 |
First published: |
November 2011 |
Authors: |
John W Allen
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-8454-0349-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
|
LSN: |
3-8454-0349-7 |
Barcode: |
9783845403496 |
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