{"product_id":"the-fiction-of-geopolitics-afterimages-of-culture-from-wilkie-collins-to-alfred-hitchcock-9780804737319","title":"The Fiction of Geopolitics: Afterimages of Culture, from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock","description":"\u003cp\u003eStudying a range of writers, genres, and disciplines, this book interrogates the status of geopolitics as a powerful twentieth-century fiction. The first part argues, through a reading of anarchist and imperialist geographers, that geopolitics emerged as a pseudoscience from the breakdown of nineteenth-century ideas of culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book's second part addresses the fate of the European hypothesis of culture, beginning with a chapter that studies the novels of Wilkie Collins within the historical context of democratic reform and the formalization of Empire. The next chapter finds, in the affinities between Olive Schreiner and Friedrich Nietzsche, a shared diagnosis of the nihilist positivism and eurocentrism of the culture hypothesis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe third part examines the relation between the utopian globalism of international socialism and the geopolitical dystopia of world war. One chapter delineates the geography of politics in the 1890s through the medium of R. B. Cunninghame Graham's political journalism and early modernist sketch-artistry. The final chapter traces the meaning of \"sabotage\" from its anarcho-syndicalist origins to its geopolitical significance in early films of Alfred Hitchcock.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharting the contours of the long turn of the century, from 1860 to 1940, the book moves back and forth from Victorian to modernist fields of study to show how the nineteenth-century European hypothesis of culture haunts the twentieth-century fiction of geopolitics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Gogwilt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.04w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804737319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2001 pg. 1450\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2001 pg. 187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher GoGwilt is Associate Professor of English and former Director of Literary Studies at Fordham University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford, 1995).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40141662814323,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_c5a315a5-049f-4f6c-8db3-26a49115ca2b.jpg?v=1654521003","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-fiction-of-geopolitics-afterimages-of-culture-from-wilkie-collins-to-alfred-hitchcock-9780804737319","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}