Kennedy, D., The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World [Book Review]

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)706-708
Number of pages3
JournalVictorian Studies
Volume48
Issue number4
StatePublished - 2006

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