The Fiction of Geopolitics: Afterimages of Culture from Wilke Collins to Alfred Hitchcock. From: Utopian Studies | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: Garvey, Brian | COPYRIGHT 2001 Society for Utopian Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Christopher GoGwilt. The Fiction of Geopolitics: Afterimages of Culture from Wilke Collins to Alfred Hitchcock.

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xiii + 265 pp. $18.95 (pb), $49.50 (hb).

FOLLOWING HIS EARLIER WORK The Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire, 1995, GoGwilt argues here that geopolitics "is neither a science nor a sociology but a fiction" (1). "[E]arly-twentieth-century geographers, politicians, ...

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