Article ID: CBB000042822

A triptych: Freud's The interpretation of dreams, Rider Haggard's She, and Bulwer-Lytton's The coming race (1993)

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Description “At least two of our figures, Haggard and Bulwer-Lytton, were directly associated with Africa. The other, Freud, envisioned it only as a continent of the mind. Yet it can be said that all three were drawing on what was basically a common Eurpoean culture and using it for a basically common purpose of dealing with the problem of civilization and culture and the irruption of the irrational into both. In the end, however, as I shall argue, these three men emerged from their African explorations with very different maps of reality.”


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Authors & Contributors
Savitt, Todd Lee
Bedini, Silvio A.
Curran, Andrew S.
Early, Julie English
Falk, Leslie A.
Finley, Randy
Journals
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Arkansas Historical Quarterly
Cahiers d'Études Africaines
Harvard Library Bulletin
Journal of American Culture
Knowledge and Society: The Anthropology of Science and Technology
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Cambridge University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
National Portrait Gallery
University of Illinois Press
University of Massachusetts Press
Concepts
African races
Medicine
African Americans and science
Colonialism
Science and literature
Science and race
People
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George
Haggard, Henry Rider
Carter, Howard
Dickens, Charles
Donaldson, Henry Herbert
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Great Britain
British Isles
Africa
Bengal (India)
France
England
Institutions
Harvard University
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