Justin D Livingstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 5651749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin D Livingstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin D |
| FAMILY NAME | Livingstone |
| SIGNATURE | LIVINGSTONE J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7195-849X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Victorian Studies in Ireland
This essay offers a perspective on the forms that ‘Victorian’ studies scholarship takes on the island of Ireland, as reflected in the papers delivered, and the conversations that took place, at the Belfast Hub of EVENT 2024. It offers some account of how the historical and contemporary specificities of Ireland, and its relation to the United Kingdom and empire, might account for the distinctive tenor of twenty-first century scholarship on the Vic…
Esoteric Exploration: Commercial Geography and Occult Secrets in the Fiction of Verney Lovett Cameron
Verney Lovett Cameron (1844–1894) has now lapsed into relative obscurity, but in the late nineteenth century he was among the premiere British explorers, having established his credentials by completing a transcontinental African expedition (1872–76) from present-day Tanzania to Angola. This article, however, focuses on Cameron's status as the most prolific of a range of explorers who turned to the affordances of prose fiction. Imaginative litera…
A Conversation about Livingstone Online and the Victorian Record of African Exploration
Livingstone Online is a digital museum and library that provides a global audience with public access to the vast written and visual legacies of David Livingstone (1813–1873), the British Victorian explorer of Africa. The site’s manuscripts span Livingstone’s adult life, ranging from family correspondence written in the 1830s to the field diaries of the 1870s composed in the Congo Basin. Additional illustrations, photographs, and other materials …
A romance of slavery: Exploration, encounters and cartographies of violence in H. M. Stanley’s My Kalulu
Crucial to the Victorian exploration of Africa were the books that travellers wrote on their return. The certifying publication, contributing to geographical knowledge, was integral to the claim to be an “explorer”. Yet as scholars have examined the literary culture of exploration, they have largely ignored the body of fiction written by various well-known travellers of sub-Saharan Africa. This article focuses on My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave…
Travels in Fiction: Baker, Stanley, Cameron and the Adventure of African Exploration
Samuel White Baker, Henry Morton Stanley, and Verney Lovett Cameron are some of the most familiar names on the roster of African exploration. Together, they are associated with central and east Africa’s most important geographical questions as well as political developments in the run up to partition. While these figures are well known for their substantial expeditionary narratives, the fact that they also published works of fiction has been almo…
Heroic Imperialists in Africa: The Promotion of British and French Colonial Heroes, 1870–1939, by Berny Sèbe
Most of us probably think we know what a ‘hero’ is, or have some ideas about the qualities and achievements that might make someone ‘heroic’. Berny Sèbe’s monograph, however, is one of those books that reveal an unexpected complexity, taking a seemingly familiar concept and successfully defamiliarising it. Sèbe’s quarry here is the ‘heroic reputation’ and specifically that of the imperial hero from the 1870s to the outbreak of the Second World Wa…
Livingstone's ‘Lives’: A metabiography of a Victorian icon
Dr. David Livingstone, the Victorian ‘missionary-explorer’, has attracted more written commentary than nearly any other heroic figure of the nineteenth century. In the years following his death, he rapidly became the subject of a major biographical tradition and indeed he continues to sustain an academic trade as well. Yet, out of the extensive discourse that has installed itself around him, no single unified image of Livingstone emerges. Rather,…
Reinterpreting Exploration: The West in the World
A “Body” of Evidence: The Posthumous Presentation of David Livingstone
It is Tuesday, 27 January 1874, and a telegram from her Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Zanzibar reaches the Foreign Office, reporting news of the death of Dr. David Livingstone. An incredulous British public struggles to disbelieve and discredit the account. Months later and, after an agonizing delay, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Malwa arrives, bearing a broken and wizened body to port in Southampton. Waiting is a public th…
The meaning and making of Missionary Travels: The sedentary and itinerant discourses of a Victorian bestseller
David Livingstone, the nineteenth-century missionary explorer, became the posthumous subject of what J.M. Mackenzie has called a ‘biographical industry’. To this we might add that he continues to sustain something of an academic industry today. Despite this continued attention, however, there has been very little sustained analysis of Livingstone’s bestseller Missionary Travels (1857). Furthermore, the original handwritten manuscript that precede…
A “Body” of Evidence: The Posthumous Presentation of David Livingstone
It is Tuesday, 27 January 1874, and a telegram from her Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Zanzibar reaches the Foreign Office, reporting news of the death of Dr. David Livingstone. An incredulous British public struggles to disbelieve and discredit the account. Months later and, after an agonizing delay, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Malwa arrives, bearing a broken and wizened body to port in Southampton. Waiting is a public th…
Reinterpreting Exploration: The West in the World
Esoteric Exploration: Commercial Geography and Occult Secrets in the Fiction of Verney Lovett Cameron
Verney Lovett Cameron (1844–1894) has now lapsed into relative obscurity, but in the late nineteenth century he was among the premiere British explorers, having established his credentials by completing a transcontinental African expedition (1872–76) from present-day Tanzania to Angola. This article, however, focuses on Cameron's status as the most prolific of a range of explorers who turned to the affordances of prose fiction. Imaginative litera…
Travels in Fiction: Baker, Stanley, Cameron and the Adventure of African Exploration
Samuel White Baker, Henry Morton Stanley, and Verney Lovett Cameron are some of the most familiar names on the roster of African exploration. Together, they are associated with central and east Africa’s most important geographical questions as well as political developments in the run up to partition. While these figures are well known for their substantial expeditionary narratives, the fact that they also published works of fiction has been almo…
The meaning and making of Missionary Travels: The sedentary and itinerant discourses of a Victorian bestseller
David Livingstone, the nineteenth-century missionary explorer, became the posthumous subject of what J.M. Mackenzie has called a ‘biographical industry’. To this we might add that he continues to sustain something of an academic industry today. Despite this continued attention, however, there has been very little sustained analysis of Livingstone’s bestseller Missionary Travels (1857). Furthermore, the original handwritten manuscript that precede…
A “Body” of Evidence: The Posthumous Presentation of David Livingstone
It is Tuesday, 27 January 1874, and a telegram from her Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Zanzibar reaches the Foreign Office, reporting news of the death of Dr. David Livingstone. An incredulous British public struggles to disbelieve and discredit the account. Months later and, after an agonizing delay, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Malwa arrives, bearing a broken and wizened body to port in Southampton. Waiting is a public th…
Livingstone's ‘Lives’: A metabiography of a Victorian icon
Dr. David Livingstone, the Victorian ‘missionary-explorer’, has attracted more written commentary than nearly any other heroic figure of the nineteenth century. In the years following his death, he rapidly became the subject of a major biographical tradition and indeed he continues to sustain an academic trade as well. Yet, out of the extensive discourse that has installed itself around him, no single unified image of Livingstone emerges. Rather,…
Reinterpreting Exploration: The West in the World
A romance of slavery: Exploration, encounters and cartographies of violence in H. M. Stanley’s My Kalulu
Crucial to the Victorian exploration of Africa were the books that travellers wrote on their return. The certifying publication, contributing to geographical knowledge, was integral to the claim to be an “explorer”. Yet as scholars have examined the literary culture of exploration, they have largely ignored the body of fiction written by various well-known travellers of sub-Saharan Africa. This article focuses on My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave…
Travels in Fiction: Baker, Stanley, Cameron and the Adventure of African Exploration
Samuel White Baker, Henry Morton Stanley, and Verney Lovett Cameron are some of the most familiar names on the roster of African exploration. Together, they are associated with central and east Africa’s most important geographical questions as well as political developments in the run up to partition. While these figures are well known for their substantial expeditionary narratives, the fact that they also published works of fiction has been almo…
Heroic Imperialists in Africa: The Promotion of British and French Colonial Heroes, 1870–1939, by Berny Sèbe
Most of us probably think we know what a ‘hero’ is, or have some ideas about the qualities and achievements that might make someone ‘heroic’. Berny Sèbe’s monograph, however, is one of those books that reveal an unexpected complexity, taking a seemingly familiar concept and successfully defamiliarising it. Sèbe’s quarry here is the ‘heroic reputation’ and specifically that of the imperial hero from the 1870s to the outbreak of the Second World Wa…
A Conversation about Livingstone Online and the Victorian Record of African Exploration
Livingstone Online is a digital museum and library that provides a global audience with public access to the vast written and visual legacies of David Livingstone (1813–1873), the British Victorian explorer of Africa. The site’s manuscripts span Livingstone’s adult life, ranging from family correspondence written in the 1830s to the field diaries of the 1870s composed in the Congo Basin. Additional illustrations, photographs, and other materials …
Victorian Studies in Ireland
This essay offers a perspective on the forms that ‘Victorian’ studies scholarship takes on the island of Ireland, as reflected in the papers delivered, and the conversations that took place, at the Belfast Hub of EVENT 2024. It offers some account of how the historical and contemporary specificities of Ireland, and its relation to the United Kingdom and empire, might account for the distinctive tenor of twenty-first century scholarship on the Vic…
Esoteric Exploration: Commercial Geography and Occult Secrets in the Fiction of Verney Lovett Cameron
Verney Lovett Cameron (1844–1894) has now lapsed into relative obscurity, but in the late nineteenth century he was among the premiere British explorers, having established his credentials by completing a transcontinental African expedition (1872–76) from present-day Tanzania to Angola. This article, however, focuses on Cameron's status as the most prolific of a range of explorers who turned to the affordances of prose fiction. Imaginative litera…
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