Taming Cannibals : : Race and the Victorians /

Taming Cannibals : : Race and the Victorians / / Patrick Brantlinger.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Brantlinger, Patrick,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Race and the Victorians
  • Part I. Two Island Stories
  • 1. Missionaries and Cannibals in Nineteenth-Century Fiji
  • 2. King Billy's Bones: The Last Tasmanians
  • Part II. Racial Alternatives
  • 3. Going Native in Nineteenth-Century History and Literature
  • 4. "God Works by Races": Benjamin Disraeli's Caucasian Arabian Hebrew Tent
  • Part III. The 1860s: The Decade after Darwin's Origin
  • 5. Race and Class in the 1860s
  • 6. The Unbearable Lightness of Being Irish
  • Part IV. Ancient and Future Races
  • 7. Mummy Love: H. Rider Haggard and Racial Archaeology
  • 8. "Shadows of the Coming Race"
  • Epilogue: Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" and Its Afterlives
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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