Images of Imperial Rule Routledge Library Editions: World Empires Series
Auteur : Ridley Hugh
Originally published in 1983. In the late nineteenth century as the European powers divided the world between themselves and scrambled over Africa, so their writers went with them, recording in fiction, as well as in historical narrative, the events and issues of the colonial expansion. The literature which they left behind them is the subject of this book.
Taking Robinson Crusoe as the starting point for colonial literature, the book looks at linking themes and ideas in the colonial literatures of England, Frances and Germany. In drawing the attention of English-speaking readers to the writing of these other countries, English fiction is placed in a wider context. The comparison also emphasises a homogeneity in the various traditions of colonial literature which goes beyond mere flag waving.
Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Robinson Crusoe and the Reading of Colonial Literature; 1. Antecedents 2. Colonial Fiction: A Literary History 3. Imperial Landscapes 4. Slaves and Mistresses 5. Justifications of Empire 6. The Unexpected Elite 7. Colonial Theory and Domestic Practice; Bibliographies; Index
Date de parution : 11-2019
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 05-2018
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes d’Images of Imperial Rule :
Mots-clés :
Colonial Fiction; Robinson Crusoe; Young Man; English Literature; Maud Diver; American Literature; Flora Annie Steel; French Literature; Exotic Tradition; German Literature; European Class System; Colonies in Literature; Colonial Literature; Hugh Ridley; Exotic Writing; Colonial Writers; Galley Slave; Ernest Psichari; Kipling’s Vision; White Colonial Society; Colonial Administration; Gustav Frenssen; Exotic Literature; Wild Duck; White Marriages; English Colonial Literature; Crusoe’s Island; Inter-racial Liaisons; Myrica Cerifera; Masterman Ready; Les Natchez; Cook’s Son