The fiction of geopolitics : afterimages of culture, from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock
Charting the contours of the long turn of the century, from 1860 to 1940, and studying a range of writers, genres, and disciplines, this book moves back and forth from Victorian to modernist fields of study to show how the 19th-century European hypothesis of culture haunts the 20th-century fiction of geopolitics.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780804737265, 9780804737319, 0804737266, 0804737312
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Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. A Genealogy of Geopolitics: 1. The geopolitical image: anarchism, imperialism and the hypothesis of culture in the formation of geopolitics; Part II. Culture and Nihilism: Prefiguring Geopolitics: 2. The Victorian blot: Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone, and the concept of culture; 3. Victorian nihilism: Friedrich Nietzsche and Olive Schreiner; Part III. Utopia and Sabotage: Contesting Geopolitics: 4. Broadcasting news from nowhere: Utopian narrative and the sketch-artistry of R. B. Cunninghame Graham; 5. The geopolitics of screenplay: sabotage from Joseph Conrad to Alfred Hitchcock.