Daniel Bivona

British Imperial Literature, 1870 1940

Writing and the Administration of Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An examination of the theme of Imperial administration in Kipling, Conrad, T. E. Lawrence, Forster, Cary and Orwell.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780521066587
• ISBN-10: 0521066581
• Artikelnr.: 23605145

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Agents and the problem of agency: the context
2. Why Africa needs Europe: from Livingstone to Stanley
3. Kipling's 'Law' and the division of bureaucratic labor
4. Agent, instrument, and novelist: Cromer, Gordon, Conrad and the problem of imperial character
5. 'Gladness of abasement': T. E. Lawrence and the erotics of imperial discipline
6. Resurrecting individualism: the interwar novels of imperial manners
Conclusion: work as rule
Bibliography.