Taming cannibals : race and the Victorians /
Brantlinger, Patrick,1941-
Ithaca : Cornell University Press,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-267) and index.
Missionaries and cannibals in nineteenth-century Fiji -- King Billy's bones : the last Tasmanians -- Going native in nineteenth-century history and literature -- "God works by races" : Benjamin Disraeli's Caucasian Arabian Hebrew tent -- Race and class in the 1860s -- The unbearable lightness of being Irish -- Mummy love : H. Rider Haggard and racial archaeology -- Shadows of the coming race -- Epilogue : Kipling's The white man's burden and its afterlives.
English literature
Cannibalism in literature.
Race in literature.
Racism in literature.
Cannibalism
Race relations