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The Highly Civilized Man Richard Burton and the Victorian ~ With this scholarly and eminently readable biography of the famed Victorian Richard Burton best known in his own era for publishing an account of his traveling to Mecca disguised as a Sufi pilgrim and for translating an uncensored edition of The Arabian Nights Kennedy seeks to alter the perception of the man as totally estranged from the straitlaced society of 19thcentury Britain
The Highly Civilized Man Richard Burton and the Victorian ~ A Highly Civilized man is a fresh and wellwritten account of an icon of the RomanticVictorian age A critical study of Sir Richard Burton Most of his biographers bowldered by the epic nature of their subject understandably so this is one remarkable guy
The Highly Civilized Man Richard Burton and the Victorian ~ Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britains 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
The Highly Civilized Man Richard Burton and the Victorian ~ Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britains 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
Dane Kennedy The Highly Civilized Man Richard Burton and ~ One great merit of the volume is to take Burton seriously as an intellectual and indeed to view him as a quintessential civilized man of Victorian Britain The breadth of Burtons knowledge the unbounded nature of his curiosity—especially for little known corners of the globe—and his involvement in British expansion make Burton a figure worthy of higher status among Victorian cultural figures than he is usually accorded
Project MUSE The Highly Civilized Man Richard Burton ~ Like the many biographies and studies that preceded it—and we can safely add like the many that are sure to follow—Dane Kennedys The Highly Civilized Man Richard Burton End Page 706 and the Victorian World revels in the multiple masks and disguises selfforged identities and acts of ventriloquism obsessions and eccentricities that make up the career of this Victorian soldierexplorerethnographerdiplomatpolyglotpoet But whereas previous writers have tended to employ these
The Highly Civilized Man — Dane Kennedy Harvard ~ 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
The Highly Civilized Man — Dane Kennedy Harvard ~ “ With this scholarly and eminently readable biography of the famed Victorian Richard Burton best known in his own era for publishing an account of his traveling to Mecca disguised as a Sufi pilgrim and for translating an uncensored edition of The Arabian Nights Kennedy seeks to alter the perception of the man as totally estranged from the straitlaced society of 19thcentury Britain
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