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• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• File Size : 31,6 Mb
• Release Date : 17 May 2024

Crossing time and oceans, this fascinating history of the McIlwraiths tracks the family's imperial identities across the generations to tell a story of anthropology and empire.

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• File Size : 20,6 Mb
• Release Date : 02 July 1998

`The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) `Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . .plucked, they fade, And

• Publisher : University of Virginia Press
• File Size : 55,5 Mb
• Release Date : 02 February 2010

Nineteenth-century periodicals frequently compared themselves to the imperial powers then dissecting the globe, and this interest in imperialism can be seen in the exotic motifs that surfaced in works by

• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• File Size : 49,8 Mb
• Release Date : 17 September 2015

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 21,6 Mb
• Release Date : 20 November 2013

This collection brings much-needed focus to the vibrancy and vitality of minority and marginal writing about empire, and to their implications as expressions of embodied contact between imperial power and

• Publisher : University of Delaware
• File Size : 35,8 Mb
• Release Date : 19 December 2012

Technologies of Empire reshapes post-colonial scholarship of the long eighteenth century by exploring the ways in which post-enlightenment authors employ writing and imagination to produce rather than simply represent empire.

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 40,5 Mb
• Release Date : 30 September 2015

Examines a range of Robert Southey's writing to explore the relationship between Romantic literature and colonial politics during the expansion of Britain's second empire. This study draws upon a range

• Publisher : Duke University Press
• File Size : 29,6 Mb
• Release Date : 17 May 1993

The white man's burden, darkest Africa, the seduction of the primitive: such phrases were widespread in the language Western empires used to talk about their colonial enterprises. How this language

• Publisher : University of Iowa Press
• File Size : 46,5 Mb
• Release Date : 15 October 2015

During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 53,7 Mb
• Release Date : 23 July 2020

The British Empire drew on the talents of many remarkable figures, whose lives reveal a wonderfully rich involvement with the crucial issues of the period. In many cases they left