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New Perspectives On Sir Richard Burton - Orientalism, The Cannibal Club And Victorian Ideas Of Sex, Race And Gender (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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New Perspectives On Sir Richard Burton - Orientalism, The Cannibal Club And Victorian Ideas Of Sex, Race And Gender (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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New Perspectives on Sir Richard Burton by Dr. John Wallen provides
exactly that: a fresh perspective from which to view one of the
leading explorers and writers of the Victorian age. Burton has
frequently been vilified by postcolonial writers as somehow an
archetypal representative of the colonial mentality that reached
out to grab an often unknown world with its all-encompassing
""imperial eyes"". On the other hand, hardly any figure of the
period has proved so enduringly popular with average readers and
enthusiasts of the Victorian age. In this scholarly book, Dr.
Wallen seeks to understand this dichotomy, tracing it back to
Burton's creation of his own popular myth in his life and writings:
a process of self aggrandizement that has been complicated by
Edward Said's more recent ambiguity on the figure of Burton in his
seminal work Orientalism. In this new and improved second edition
of New Perspectives, prominence is given to Burton's own myth
making and his little known activities as a member of the secretive
Victorian men's club known as the ""Cannibal Club"". A Foreword is
provided by Professor Dane Kennedy of George Washington University.
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