Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire
Subtitle: Public Discourse and the Boer War (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 26, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780521607728
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; South African War, 1899-1902--Literature and; South African War, 1899-1902--Literature and the war
First sentence: In the 1939 Shirley Temple film of the classic children's story A Little Princess, young Sara Crewe rousts all the slumbering residents of Miss Minchin's Female Seminary from their beds with the cry of "Mafeking is relieved! Mafeking is relieved!" Sara patriotically drags her schoolmates and teachers into the wild London street celebrations marking the end of the Boer War siege that she and the rest of England had been following in the newspapers for months.