English literature and the wider world
By: general editor, Michael Cotsell.
Contributors: Cotsell, Michael.; McVeagh, John.; Gatrell, Simon.
Publisher: Ashfield Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: London; Atlantic Highlands, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: English literature -- Foreign influences.; English literature -- History and criticism.; British -- Foreign countries -- History.; Exoticism in literature.; Travel in literature.
Description: Charts the movement from the self-confident mid-Victorian attitudes expressed by Trollope in South Africa; through the parallel growths of fear of European expansionism and glory in British imperialism voiced by Kipling, Meredith, and Gissing; to the post Victorian, post-Boer War reaction found in Conrad, Forster, and Wells.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. All before them, 1660-1780 / edited by John McVeagh; title: v. 3. Creditable warriors, 1830-1876  / edited by Michael Cotsell; title: v. 4. The ends of the earth, 1876-1918 / edited by Simon Gatrell.