{"product_id":"penetrating-critiques-9781487501525","title":"Penetrating Critiques","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePenetrating Critiques pairs Victorian literary texts set in Africa with archival texts in order to explore the fraught problem of British masculinity and its construction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In an analysis that straddles [...] the binary critical history of Heart of Darkness, Allin evokes the complexity and complicity of Conrad’s narrative. An epilogue on representations of empire after 9\/11 brings the argument into the 21st century.\" -- N. Birns, New York University * \u003cem\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"In her well-researched and well-written study, Leslie Allin traces signs of anxiety in a range of texts about Africa from the last quarter of the nineteenth century, including archival documents, newspaper reports, and popular fiction.\" -- Jochen Petzold, University of Regensburg * \u003ci\u003eVictorian Periodicals Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction    Part I: Ruptures in Adventure Romance   1. Permeable Boundaries: Violence and Fantasy in Zululand    2. H. Rider Haggard’s Inversions: Vulnerability and the Narrative Volatility of Imperial Romance    Part II: Gothic Penetrations   3. Transgression and Loss: General Gordon and Gothic Imagination    4. Marsh’s Perforations: Desire, Imperial Decay, and the Narrative Instability of The Beetle    Part III: Modernist Dissolutions   5. Bodily Disintegrations: Forensic Exposure and the Human Leopard Society in Sierra Leone    6. Getting to the Hearts of Darkness    Works Cited","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742575591767,"sku":"9781487501525","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487501525.jpg?v=1758385345","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/penetrating-critiques-9781487501525","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}