By Robbie McLaughlan
Maps the fin de siècle project to open up the 'Dark Continent.' even though nineteenth-century map-makers imposed topographic definition upon a perceived geographical void, writers of experience fiction, and different colonial writers, persevered to nourish the belief of a cartographic absence of their paintings. This examine explores the results of this epistemological blankness in fin de siècle literature, and its impression upon early Modernist tradition, in the course of the rising self-discipline of psychoanalysis and the debt that Freud owed to African exploration. The chapters learn: representations of Black Africa in missionary writing and Rider Haggard's narratives on Africa; cartographic culture in Conrad's center of Darkness and Jung's thoughts, desires, Reflections; and mesmeric fiction, comparable to Richard Marsh's The Beetle, Robert Buchanan's The Charlatan and George du Maurier's Trilby. As Robbie McLaughlan demonstrates, it was once the past due Victorian 'best-seller' which merged an arcane significant African imagery with an curiosity in psychic phenomena.
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