Images of Imperial Rule

Hugh Ridley

ISBN 10: 1138499250 / ISBN 13: 9781138499256

Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mai 2018, 2018

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Neuware - Originally published in 1983. In the late nineteenth century as the European powers divided the world between themselves and scrambled over Africa, so their writers went with them, recording in fiction, as well as in historical narrative, the events and issues of the colonial expansion. The literature which they left behind them is the subject of this book. Taking Robinson Crusoe as the starting point for colonial literature, the book looks at linking themes and ideas in the colonial literatures of England, Frances and Germany. In drawing the attention of English-speaking readers to the writing of these other countries, English fiction is placed in a wider context. The comparison also emphasises a homogeneity in the various traditions of colonial literature which goes beyond mere flag waving.

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• Titolo: Images of Imperial Rule
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mai 2018
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1138499250
• ISBN 13: 9781138499256
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 234 L x 156 A x 13 P (millimetri) 234 millimetri di larghezza per 156 millimetri di altezza per 13 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 457 grammi

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Originally published in 1983. In the late nineteenth century as the European powers divided the world between themselves and scrambled over Africa, so their writers went with them, recording in fiction, as well as in historical narrative, the events and issues of the colonial expansion. The literature which they left behind them is the subject of this book.

Taking Robinson Crusoe as the starting point for colonial literature, the book looks at linking themes and ideas in the colonial literatures of England, Frances and Germany. In drawing the attention of English-speaking readers to the writing of these other countries, English fiction is placed in a wider context. The comparison also emphasises a homogeneity in the various traditions of colonial literature which goes beyond mere flag waving.

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Hugh Ridley