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Images of imperial rule

Title: Images of imperial rule / Hugh Ridley.
Author: Ridley, Hugh.
Publication: London : Croom Helm ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1983.

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Description

vii, 181 pages; 22 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 166-175.

ISBN

0312409265
9780312409265
0709922442
9780709922445

LCCN

82025547

OCLC

ocm09197665
9197665
SCSB-68751

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Princeton University Library