Abstract
Like the the many biographies and studies that preceded it-and, we can safely add, like the
many that are sure to follow-Dane Kennedy's The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World reveals in the multiple masks and disguises, self-forged identities and acts of ventriloquism, obsessions and eccentricities that make up the career of this Victorian soldier-explorer-ethnographer-diplomat-polyglot-poet.
many that are sure to follow-Dane Kennedy's The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World reveals in the multiple masks and disguises, self-forged identities and acts of ventriloquism, obsessions and eccentricities that make up the career of this Victorian soldier-explorer-ethnographer-diplomat-polyglot-poet.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 706-708 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Victorian Studies |
Volume | 48 |
Issue number | 4 |
State | Published - 2006 |