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British Imperial Literature, 1870 1940
Writing and the Administration of Empire
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521066587
Veröffentl:
2008
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.03.2008
Seiten:
252
Autor:
Daniel Bivona
Gewicht:
415 g
Format:
229x152x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
An examination of the theme of Imperial administration in Kipling, Conrad, T. E. Lawrence, Forster, Cary and Orwell.
Introduction; 1. Agents and the problem of agency: the context; 2. Why Africa needs Europe: from Livingstone to Stanley; 3. Kipling's 'Law' and the division of bureaucratic labor; 4. Agent, instrument, and novelist: Cromer, Gordon, Conrad and the problem of imperial character; 5. 'Gladness of abasement': T. E. Lawrence and the erotics of imperial discipline; 6. Resurrecting individualism: the interwar novels of imperial manners; Conclusion: work as rule; Bibliography.