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Livingstone's 'Lives' - A Metabiography of a Victorian Icon (Paperback)
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Livingstone's 'Lives' - A Metabiography of a Victorian Icon (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Imperialism
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David Livingstone, the 'missionary-explorer', has attracted more
commentary than nearly any other Victorian hero. Beginning in the
years following his death, he soon became the subject of a major
biographical tradition. Yet out of this extensive discourse, no
unified image of Livingstone emerges. Rather, he has been
represented in diverse ways and in a variety of socio-political
contexts. Until now, no one has explored Livingstone's posthumous
reputation in full. This book meets the challenge. In approaching
Livingstone's complex legacy, it adopts a metabiographical
perspective: in other words, this book is a biography of
biographies. Rather than trying to uncover the true nature of the
subject, metabiography is concerned with the malleability of
biographical representation. It does not aim to uncover
Livingstone's 'real' identity, but instead asks: what has he been
made to mean? Crossing disciplinary boundaries, Livingstone's
'lives' will interest scholars of imperial history,
postcolonialism, life-writing, travel-writing and Victorian
studies. -- .
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