Enacting Englishness in the Victorian period
Subtitle: colonialism and the politics of performance
By: by Angelia Poon.
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780754658481
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; National characteristics, English, in literature; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Knowledge, Theory of, in literature; Cultural fusion in literature; Imperialism in literature
Table of contents: title: English homebodies: the politics of spectacle and domesticity in mid-century Victorian conduct literature and Jane Eyre; title: Comic acts of (be)longing: performing Englishness in wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many lands; title: Seeing double: performing English identity and imperial duty in Emily Eden's Up the country and Harriet Martineau's British rule in India; title: Charles Dickens and the policing of the English body; title: Imperial fantasies and the politics of reproducing Englishness: Henry Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain.