Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

Christopher GoGwilt is Associate Professor of English and former Director of Literary Studies at Fordham University. He is the author of The Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire (Stanford, 1995).

Reviews

" ... GoGwilt manages an impressive synthesis of material." - Utopian Studies