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Outlandish English subjects in the victorian domestic novel

'Tim Carens' Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel makes a commanding contribution to the burgeoning study of the reflux of imperialism in metropolitan England. He brilliantly discovers how the ideologies of an imperial civilizing mission variously manifest themselves...

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Main Authors: Carens, Timothy L
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers > c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 > c 1800 to c 1900
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230501614
Summary: 'Tim Carens' Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel makes a commanding contribution to the burgeoning study of the reflux of imperialism in metropolitan England. He brilliantly discovers how the ideologies of an imperial civilizing mission variously manifest themselves as they return to invest personal relations at home. His sense of the precariousness of such home missions, founded as they were on the unstable binaries of the empire itself, arms a discussion of major texts from the entire nineteenth century with important new insights - and with penetrating wit before t
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2005.
Carrier Form: 208 p.
ISBN: 9781403946508
9780230501614 :
0230501613 :
CLC: I11
Contents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Bridging the Divide Strange Relations: Evangelical and Anthropological Roots of Imperial Anxiety The Juggernaut Roles in England: The Idol of Patriarchal Authority in Jane Eyre and The Egoist Failed Colonies in Africa and England: Civilizing Despair in Bleak House Mutinous Outbreaks in The Moonstone Portions Wholly Savage: Ongoing Reforms at Home and Abroad Notes Works Cited Index.

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