The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian WorldHarvard University Press, 30.09.2005 - 354 Seiten Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures. A soldier, explorer, ethnographer, and polyglot of rare power, as well as a poet, travel writer, and translator of the tales of the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, Burton exercised his abundant talents in a diverse array of endeavors. Though best remembered as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source of the White Nile, Burton traveled so widely, wrote so prolifically, and contributed so forcefully to his generation's most contentious debates that heprovides us with a singularly panoramic perspective on the world of theVictorians. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
The Gypsy | 10 |
The Orientalist | 26 |
The Impersonator | 58 |
The Exporler | 93 |
The Racist | 131 |
The Relative | 164 |
The Sexologist | 206 |
The Afterlife | 248 |
A Note on Sources | 275 |
Notes | 281 |
Acknowledgements | 343 |
347 | |
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