A “Body” of Evidence: The Posthumous Presentation of David Livingstone

Livingstone, Justin D.

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“…Since then scholars have directed attention to both the broad shape of his posthumous reputation (Livingstone 2014), and his commemoration in discrete historical moments. For instance Livingstone's spectacular funeral in Westminster Abbey, following his 'great death' in Central Africa, has been anatomised in some detail (Wolffe 2000;Lewis 2007;Livingstone 2012). His status as a 'Protestant saint' (MacKenzie 1992), who inspired an industry of religiously imbued 'relics', has also received scrutiny as a quite unusual Victorian phenomenon (Renema & van Zoelen 2012;Wingfield 2012).…”

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Writing and Remembrance: New Directions in Livingstone Studies

Livingstone

2013

Scottish Geographical Journal

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This volume of essays contains some of the best recent work on the Victorian missionary and explorer David Livingstone (1813-1873), gathered together for the bicentenary of his birth. The following introduction delineates 'Livingstone Studies' as a field of research and directs attention to its inherently interdisciplinary nature. It summarises the various papers in the collection, gathered together under the two broad thematic categories of 'writing' and 'remembrance'. Additionally, this introduction argues that the papers speak well beyond their Livingstone focus. In the first section scholars are directed to the margins of empire, as the articles articulate the importance of 'peripheral' spaces and intercultural interaction in shaping Victorian identities and geographical and imperial knowledge. The analytic approach and broader context of the papers, moreover, as they delve into the archive of exploration, will be of general interest to scholars of print culture and travel literature. The second section extends the collection's value beyond the nineteenth century altogether. For those interested in reception and reputation studies, the detailed examination of one heroic reputation will offer productive ways for thinking about the legacies of public figures.

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Writing and Remembrance: New Directions in Livingstone Studies

Livingstone

2013

Scottish Geographical Journal

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“…Popularly, we remember famous episodes of his life: the lion attack, discovering Victoria Falls, 'Dr Livingstone I presume?' and his corpse being carried to the coast by Chuma and Susi (Pettitt 2007;Livingstone 2012). Livingstone's legacy is remembered in different ways either as a missionary, explorer, abolitionist or humanitarian.…”

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‘Pilgrimage to Chipundu’: Livingstone's Legacy among Scottish Missionaries in Northern Rhodesia/Zambia, 1950s–1970s

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2013

Scottish Geographical Journal

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The Franklin Relics in the Arctic Archive

Craciun

2014

Victorian Literature and Culture

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In August 2013 the Canadian governmentlaunched its largest search for the ships, relics, and records of the John Franklin expedition, which disappeared with all 129 hands lost searching for the Northwest Passage in 1845. Canada's latest search was its fifth in six years, one of dozens of search expeditions launched since 1848, in a well-known story of imperial hubris elevated to an internationalcause célèbre. Recent work in nineteenth-century literary and visual culture has shown the significant role that Franklin played in the Victorian popular imagination of the Arctic (see Spufford, Potter, David, Hill, Cavell, Williams, Savours, MacLaren). In panoramas, stereographs, paintings, plays, music, lantern shows, exhibitions, and popular and elite printed texts, record numbers of Britons could enjoy at their leisure the Arctic sublime in which Franklin's men perished. Alongside this work on how Europeans represented Arctic peoples and places, we also have a growing body of Inuit oral histories describing their encounters with nineteenth-century Arctic explorers. Drawing on these traditional histories of British exploration, visual culture, and literary imagination, and on postcolonial, anthropological and indigenous accounts that shift our attention away from the Eurocentrism of exploration historiography, and toward the “hidden histories of exploration,” this essay uncovers an unexamined material dimension of these encounters – the “Franklin Relics” collected by voyagers searching for Franklin.

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A “Body” of Evidence: The Posthumous Presentation of David Livingstone

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Writing and Remembrance: New Directions in Livingstone Studies

Writing and Remembrance: New Directions in Livingstone Studies

‘Pilgrimage to Chipundu’: Livingstone's Legacy among Scottish Missionaries in Northern Rhodesia/Zambia, 1950s–1970s

The Franklin Relics in the Arctic Archive

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