By Justin D. Livingstone
ISBN-10: 0719095328
ISBN-13: 9780719095320
ISBN-10: 1526106795
ISBN-13: 9781526106797
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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