Gordon of Khartoum

Published: Oct. 22, 2019, 5 a.m.

A colonialist and conqueror, upholder of ideals of English masculinity, and religious fanatic; possessed of a powerful death wish. \u201cYes, that is flesh, that is what I hate, and what makes me wish to die.\u201d\n----more----\nEllis, Heather, and Jessica Meyer, eds.\xa0Masculinity and the Historical Other. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.\nFaught, C. Brad.\xa0Gordon: Victorian Hero. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.\nPollock, John.\xa0Gordon: The Man Behind The Legend. London: Constable Books, 1993.\nOur intro music is\xa0Arpeggia Colorix\xa0by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons\xa0Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ\xa0Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.