TY - GEN T1 - Penetrating critiques : emasculated empire and Victorian identity in Africa A1 - Allin, Leslie, 1984- LA - English PP - Toronto ; Buffalo ; London PB - University of Toronto Press YR - 2020 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1150919374 AB - "Tracing the intersections between archival documents and immensely popular adventure fiction set in Africa, Penetrating Critiques highlights the anxieties surrounding the vulnerability of the white male body by assessing the destabilization of narrative itself. The author considers texts ranging from private letters, governmental correspondence, periodicals, and archives to the popular works of H. Rider Haggard, Richard Marsh, and Joseph Conrad. These texts trouble the notions of bounded male bodies, impermeable histories, and solid virtues while underscoring the grotesqueness of male forms, narratives, and moralities. Although dominant representations of martial bodies frequently emphasized boundaries, containment, and solidity, the fiction and imperial archives explored in this book expose problems of stability through tropes, images, and material evidence of perforation, penetration, and dissolution. In emphasizing the relationship between institutional imperial writing and popular discourse, Penetrating Critiques reveals that more complex, fraught, and critical approaches to imperialism and masculinity were circulating throughout Victorian culture than previously recognized. "-- OP - 306 CN - PR468.M38 A45 2020 SN - 9781487513429 SN - 1487513429 SN - 9781487513412 SN - 1487513410 SN - 1487501528 SN - 9781487501525 KW - English literature : 19th century : History and criticism. KW - Masculinity in literature. KW - Imperialism in literature. KW - Africa : In literature. KW - Littérature anglaise : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Masculinité dans la littérature. KW - Impérialisme dans la littérature. KW - Afrique : Dans la littérature. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century . KW - English literature KW - Imperialism in literature KW - Literature KW - Masculinity in literature KW - Africa KW - 1800-1899 KW - Electronic books. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -