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Enacting Englishness in the Victorian period : colonialism and the politics of performance
- Title
- Enacting Englishness in the Victorian period : colonialism and the politics of performance / Angelia Poon.
- Author
- Poon, Angelia.
- Publication
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR878.N3557 P66 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 174 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Angelia Poon examines how British colonial authority in the nineteenth century was predicated on its being rendered in ways the were recognisably 'English.' This book focuses on the strategies - narrative, illustrative, and rhetorical - used to perform English subjectivity during the time of the British Empire."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- 1800-1999
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- National characteristics, English, in literature
- English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
- Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism
- Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
- Cultural fusion in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- Commonwealth literature (English)
- English literature
- Literature and society
- Englisch
- Kolonialismus Motiv
- Literatur
- Nationalbewusstsein Motiv
- Kolonialliteratur
- Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Colonisation
- Identité > Grande-Bretagne > 19e siècle
- Identitet (filosofi) i litteraturen
- Nationalkaraktär i litteraturen
- Imperialism i litteraturen
- Engelsk litteratur > historia > 1800-talet > 1900-talet
- Litteratur och samhälle > historia > Storbritannien > 1800-talet > 1900-talet
- Great Britain
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-169) and index.
- Contents
- English homebodies : the politics of spectacle and domesticity in mid-century Victorian conduct literature and Jane Eyre -- Comic acts of (be)longing : performing Englishness in wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands -- Seeing double : performing English identity and imperial duty in Emily Eden's Up the country and Harriet Martineau's British rule in India -- Charles Dickens and the policing of the English body -- Imperial fantasies and the politics of reproducing Englishness : Henry Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain.
- ISBN
- 9780754658481
- 0754658481
- LCCN
- 2007038170
- OCLC
- ocn173218698
- 173218698
- SCSB-14509927
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library