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Imperial emotions : the politics of empathy across the British empire
- Title
- Imperial emotions : the politics of empathy across the British empire / Jane Lydon.
- Author
- Lydon, Jane, 1965-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 221 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Over the last decades of the eighteenth century, hopes and ambitions turned to conceptions of the great southern land, and the British nurtured fond plans for the Antipodean colonies of Australia and New Zealand conceived as children of the British Empire, one day to assume a glorious inheritance. Many emotional ties first experienced within the British family were applied to, enlarged, and challenged by the relationships and scope of empire: ideas about inheritance and childhood, for example, shaped utopian views of the colonies, while racial exclusion could be couched in terms of class. From colonization in 1788, the reality of invasion and violence against Indigenous people challenged this imaginary future, prompting mourning and erasure"--
- Series Statement
- Critical perspectives on empire
- Uniform Title
- Critical perspectives on empire.
- Subject
- Empathy > Political aspects > Great Britain
- Indigenous peoples > Oceania > Social conditions
- Empathy in literature
- Imperialism
- British colonies
- Indigenous peoples > Social conditions
- Race relations
- Social policy
- Einfühlung
- Imperialismus
- Indigenes Volk
- Kolonie
- Great Britain > Colonies > Oceania
- Great Britain > Colonies > Social policy
- Great Britain > Colonies > Race relations
- Great Britain
- Oceania
- Großbritannien
- Ozeanien
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Emotions and empire -- Children of empire : British nationalism and colonial utopias -- Colonial 'blind spots' : images of frontier conflict -- Australian Uncle Tom's cabins -- The homeless of empire? Imperial outcasts in Bleak house -- Christian heroes on the new frontier -- Charity begins at home? Philanthropy, magic lantern slides and missionary performances -- The republican debate and popular royalism : 'a strange reluctance to actually shout at the Queen'.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-2665
- ISBN
- 9781108498364
- 1108498361
- LCCN
- 2019019495
- 40029573150
- OCLC
- 1107150875
- Author
- Lydon, Jane, 1965- author.
- Title
- Imperial emotions : the politics of empathy across the British empire / Jane Lydon.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Critical perspectives on empireCritical perspectives on empire.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029573150
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-2665