Dark Vanishings
ISBN: 9780801468681
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Eurocentrism.; Genocide.; Social Darwinism.; Indigenous peoples.;

Brantlinger here examines the commonly held 19th-century view that all "primitive" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction.


Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy and College Alumni Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) of English and Victorian Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of many books, including Fictions of State, Rule of Darkness, and Bread and Circuses, also from Cornell.

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