Afterimages of Culture, from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/09/2000
Studying a range of writers, genres, and disciplines, this book interrogates the status of geopolitics as a powerful twentieth-century fiction. The first part argues, through a reading of anarchist and imperialist geographers, that geopolitics emerged as a pseudoscience from the breakdown of nineteenth-century ideas of culture. The book s second part addresses the fate of the European hypothesis of culture, beginning with a chapter that studies the novels of Wilkie Collins within the historical context of democratic reform and the formalization of Empire. The next chapter finds, in the affinities between Olive Schreiner and Friedrich Nietzsche, a shared diagnosis of the nihilist positivism and eurocentrism of the culture hypothesis.
- ISBN:
- 9780804737265
- 9780804737265
- Category:
- Literary studies: general
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 01-09-2000
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x23mm
- Weight:
- 0.52kg
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