Imperial masochism
Subtitle: British fiction, fantasy, and social class
By: John Kucich.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780691127125
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Masochism in literature; Social classes in literature; Imperialism in literature; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
Description: "In Imperial Masochism, John Kucich reveals the central role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. Placing the colonial writers Robert Louis Stevenson, Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad in their cultural context, Kucich shows how the ideological and psychological dynamics of empire, particularly its reorganization of class identities at the colonial periphery, depended on figurations of masochism." "The first full-length study of masochism in British colonial fiction, Imperial Masochism puts forth new readings of this literature and shows the continued relevance of psychoanalysis to historicist studies of literature and culture."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.