VictorianTravelWritingandImperialViolenceBritishWritingonAfrica,1855–1902LauraE.FraneyVictorianTravelWritingandImperialViolencePalgraveStudiesinNineteenth-CenturyWritingandCultureGeneralEditor:JosephBristow,ProfessorofEnglish,UCLAEditorialAdvisoryBoard:YopiePrins,UniversityofMichigan;JennyBourneTaylor,UniversityofSussex;LindsaySmith,UniversityofSussex;JosephineMcDonagh,BirkbeckCollege;MargaretD.Stetz,BirkbeckCollege;HilaryFraser,UniversityofWesternAustraliaPalgraveStudiesinNineteenth-CenturyWritingandCultureisanewmonographserieswhichaimstorepresentthemostinnovativeresearchintoliterarywritingandcultureproducedintheEnglish-speakingworldfromthetimeoftheNapo-leonicWarstothefindesie`cle.Attentivetothehistoricalcontinuitiesbetween‘Romantic’and‘Victorian’,theserieswillreassessthecriticalproblemofperiod-izationduringacenturythatmarkstrajectoriessuchastheemergenceofliberal-ism.Themainaimoftheseriesistolookattheincreasinginfluenceoftypesofhistoricismonouranalysisofliteraryformsandgenres.Itreflectsonthesignifi-cantshiftfromcriticaltheorytoculturalhistorythathasaffectednotonlytheperiod1800–1900buteveryfieldwithinthedisciplineofEnglishliterature.Alltitlesintheseriesseektoofferrefreshingnewperspectivesandchallengingnewreadingsoftheperiod.Titlesinclude:LauraE.FraneyVICTORIANTRAVELWRITINGANDIMPERIALVIOLENCEBritishWritingonAfrica,1855–1902LawrenceFrankVICTORIANDETECTIVEFICTIONANDTHENATUREOFEVIDENCETheScientificInvestigationsofPoe,DickensandDoyleVictorianTravelWritingandImperialViolence:BritishWritingonAfrica,1855–1902LauraE.FraneyQLauraE.Franey2003Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthispublicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission.Noparagraphofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmittedsavewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsoftheCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicencepermittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency,90TottenhamCourtRoad,LondonW1T4LP.Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorisedactinrelationtothispublicationmaybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages.TheauthorhasassertedherrighttobeidentifiedastheauthorofthisworkinaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988.Firstpublished2003byPALGRAVEMACMILLANHoundmills,Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XSand175FifthAvenue,NewYork,N.Y.10010CompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworldPALGRAVEMACMILLANistheglobalacademicimprintofthePalgraveMacmillandivisionofSt.Martin’sPress,LLCandofPalgraveMacmillanLtd.MacmillanTisaregisteredtrademarkintheUnitedStates,UnitedKingdomandothercountries.PalgraveisaregisteredtrademarkintheEuropeanUnionandothercountries.ISBN1-4039-0508-8hardbackThisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfullymanagedandsustainedforestsources.AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary.LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataFraney,LauraE.,1971-Victoriantravelwritingandimperialviolence:BritishwritingonAfrica,1855–1902/LauraE.Franey.p.cm.–(Palgravestudiesinnineteenth-centurywritingandculture)Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.ISBN1-4039-0508-81.Englishliterature–Africaninfluences.2.Englishproseliterature–19thcentury–Historyandcriticism.3.Travelers’writings,English–Historyandcriticism.4.Africa–Descriptionandtravel–Historiography.5.Travelers–Africa–History–19thcentury.6.Violence–Africa–History–19...
