Rule of Darkness : : British Literature and Imperialism, 1830–1914 /

Rule of Darkness : : British Literature and Imperialism, 1830–1914 / / Patrick Brantlinger.

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A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of margina...

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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, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 12 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • PART I. DAWN
  • 1. From Dawn Island to Heart of Darkness
  • 2. Bringing Up the Empire: Captain Marryat’s Midshipmen
  • PART II. NOON
  • 3. Thackeray’s India
  • 4. Black Swans; or, Botany Bay Eclogues
  • 5. The New Crusades
  • 6. The Genealogy of the Myth of the “Dark Continent”
  • 7. The Well at Cawnpore: Literary Representations of the Indian Mutiny of 1857
  • PART III. DUSK
  • 8. Imperial Gothic: Atavism and the Occult in the British Adventure Novel , 1880–1914
  • 9. Epilogue: Kurtzs “Darkness” and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
  • Notes
  • Index

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