Taming Cannibals : : Race and the Victorians / / Patrick Brantlinger.
In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not att...
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Introduction: Race and the Victorians -- |t Part I. Two Island Stories -- |t 1. Missionaries and Cannibals in Nineteenth-Century Fiji -- |t 2. King Billy's Bones: The Last Tasmanians -- |t Part II. Racial Alternatives -- |t 3. Going Native in Nineteenth-Century History and Literature -- |t 4. "God Works by Races": Benjamin Disraeli's Caucasian Arabian Hebrew Tent -- |t Part III. The 1860s: The Decade after Darwin's Origin -- |t 5. Race and Class in the 1860s -- |t 6. The Unbearable Lightness of Being Irish -- |t Part IV. Ancient and Future Races -- |t 7. Mummy Love: H. Rider Haggard and Racial Archaeology -- |t 8. "Shadows of the Coming Race" -- |t Epilogue: Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" and Its Afterlives -- |t Notes -- |t Works Cited -- |t Index |
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520 | |a In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only approximate, yet the "civilizing mission" was viewed as the ultimate justification for imperialism. Similarly, the supposedly unshakeable certainty of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority was routinely undercut by widespread fears about racial degeneration through contact with "lesser" races or concerns that Anglo-Saxons might be superseded by something superior-an even "fitter" or "higher" race or species.Brantlinger traces the development of those fears through close readings of a wide range of texts-including Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Fiji and the Fijians by Thomas Williams, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians by James Bonwick, The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold, She by H. Rider Haggard, and The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Throughout the wide-ranging, capacious, and rich Taming Cannibals, Brantlinger combines the study of literature with sociopolitical history and postcolonial theory in novel ways. | ||
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588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) | |
650 | 0 | |a Cannibalism in literature. | |
650 | 0 | |a Cannibalism |x History |y 19th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a English literature |y 19th century |x History and criticism. | |
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650 | 0 | |a Racism in literature. | |
650 | 4 | |a Discrimination & Race Relations. | |
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