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 |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 706-708 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Victorian Studies |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - 2006 |