Victorian literature and postcolonial studies
By: Patrick Brantlinger.
Series: Postcolonial literary studies; Postcolonial literary studies
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780748633036; 9780748633043
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Imperialism in literature; Postcolonialism
Description: "This book examines the relationship between the British Empire and Victorian literature. It explains how Victorian literature both gave expression to pro-imperialist themes, and engaged with forms of opposition to the empire like abolitionism and early Indian nationalism. Victorian literature is analyzed in relation to key debates in postcolonial studies about Orientalism, race, gender, Marxism, subalterneity, imperial historiography, mimicry and representation. And there are in-depth examinations of works by major Victorian authors in an imperial context, notably those of Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Disraeli, Tennyson, Yeats, Kipling and Conrad."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-174) and index.