Rule Britannia : : Women, Empire, and Victorian Writing /

Rule Britannia : : Women, Empire, and Victorian Writing / / Deirdre David.

Deirdre David here explores women's role in the literature of the colonial and imperial British nation, both as writers and as subjects of representation.David's inquiry juxtaposes the parliamentary speeches of Thomas Macaulay and the private letters of Emily Eden, a trial in Calcutta and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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David, Deirdre,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1995
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 7 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION. Tropical Fruit in Brixton
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Invasion of Empire: Thomas Macaulay and Emily Eden Go to India
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Heart of the Empire: Little Nell and Florence Dombey Do Their Bit
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Governess of Empire: Jane Eyre Takes Care of India and Jamaica
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Babu Kalicharan Banerjee Puts His Arm around Miss Mary Pigot
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Laboring for the Empire: Old Patriarchy and New Imperialism in Tennyson and H. Rider Haggard
  • CONCLUSION. "Material Interest": Emilia Gould Sums It Up
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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