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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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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 empire
Critical perspectives on empire.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Standard Identifier
40029573150
Research Call Number
JFE 20-2665
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