The Fiction of Geopolitics

Afterimages of Culture, from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock

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Christopher GoGwilt

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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.

Author Biography:

Christopher GoGwilt is Associate Professor of English and former Director of Literary Studies at Fordham University. He is the author of The Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire (Stanford, 1995).

Release date NZ

September 1st, 2000

Author

Christopher GoGwilt

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

288

Dimensions

153x229x18

ISBN-13

9780804737319

Product ID

5307853

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