Download PDF by Justin D. Livingstone: Livingstone's 'lives': A metabiography of a Victorian icon

By Justin D. Livingstone

ISBN-10: 0719095328

ISBN-13: 9780719095320

ISBN-10: 1526106795

ISBN-13: 9781526106797

David Livingstone, the 'missionary-explorer', has attracted extra observation than approximately the other Victorian hero. starting within the years following his loss of life, he quickly turned the topic of an important biographical culture. but out of this broad discourse, no unified picture of Livingstone emerges. really, he has been represented in different methods and in numerous socio-political contexts.

Until now, nobody has explored Livingstone's posthumous acceptance in complete. This booklet meets the problem. In imminent Livingstone's advanced legacy, it adopts a metabiographical viewpoint: in different phrases, this publication is a biography of biographies. instead of attempting to discover the genuine nature of the topic, metabiography is anxious with the malleability of biographical illustration. It doesn't objective to discover Livingstone's 'real' id, yet as a substitute asks: what has he been made to mean?

Crossing disciplinary limitations, Livingstone's 'lives' will curiosity students of imperial historical past, postcolonialism, life-writing, travel-writing and Victorian studies.

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