New perspectives on Sir Richard Burton : orientalism, the Cannibal Club and Victorian ideas of sex,...
New perspectives on Sir Richard Burton : orientalism, the Cannibal Club and Victorian ideas of sex,...
New perspectives on Sir Richard Burton : orientalism, the Cannibal Club and Victorian ideas of sex, race and gender / John Wallen.
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Palo Alto, CA : Academica Press, [2016]
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G 2015/4273
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English
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x, 187 pages ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Is Burton still relevant? -- Sufi, Christian or Buddhist? : Richard Francis Burton's "parameters of belief" -- The Cannibal Club and the origins of 19th century racism and pornography -- Burton, Said and postcolonial theory : an unreasonable discourse -- Burton in Makkah and Medina : Sufi aspirant o...
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Publisher
Palo Alto, CA : Academica Press, [2016]
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California
Date Published
[2016]
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"A research monograph on the mid-Victorian rise of Sir Richard Burton, Orientalism and the phenomenon of the Cannibal Club is overdue as, although it has been dealt with superficially many times, there has never been a book length treatment which focuses clearly on the whole arc of its historical development and its relevance to the undercutting of...
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New perspectives on Sir Richard Burton : orientalism, the Cannibal Club and Victorian ideas of sex, race and gender / John Wallen.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2015/4273
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74VKRlvg6z23
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1936320878 hardcover
9781936320875 hardcover
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910.92
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991023302539702626
