Empire of Sentiment: The Death of Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism

ISBN-13: 9781316648230 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str.

Joanna Lewis

Opis

An innovative study proposing a new history of the British Empire in Africa by exploring the emotion culture of imperialism.

Recenzje

'The especial value of what Lydon and Lewis offer rests in their detailed historical accounting: the particularity of the circumstances they survey in Australia and Africa, respectively. Both monographs contribute to a larger and more complex history of how feeling was manipulated across the British Empire.' Jason R. Rudy, Victorian Studies

Spis treści

Prologue; Introduction; 1. 'A Parliament of philanthropy': the fight to bury Livingstone; 2. Laying to rest a Victorian myth: The 'lost heart of the nation', Victorian sentimentality and the rebirth of moral imperialism; 3. A perfect savagery: the Livingstone martyrs and the tree of death on Africa's 'highway to hell'; 4. The graveyard of ambition: missionary wars, bachelor colonialism and white memorials, Chitambo, 1900–1913; 5. White settlers, frontier-chic and colonial racism: how Livingstone's three Cs fell apart; 6. 'The hearts of good men': 1973, the one party state and the struggle against apartheid; 7. 'Chains of remembrance': Livingstone, sentimental imperialism and Britain's Africa conversation, 1913–2013; Conclusion.