Livingstone’s Lives : A Metabiography of a Victorian Icon
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 94518599
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 978-0-7190-9532-0
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Livingstone’s ‘Lives’, published by Manchester University Press, is the first monograph to investigate the cultural afterlives and complex legacies of the major Victorian missionary and explorer, David Livingstone. Developing a metabiographical perspective – which focuses on the malleability and ideological embeddedness of biographical representation – the book investigates Livingstone’s self-construction, his Victorian commemoration, his imperial and Scottish legacies through the twentieth century, and his recent postcolonial re-imagination. This 125,000-word single-authored monograph engages with life-writing, travel-writing, Victorian studies, postcolonialism and imperial history, and pursues a markedly interdisciplinary approach to the reputation of one of the nineteenth century’s most celebrated heroic icons.
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- Non-English
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