Angelia Poon

Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period (eBook, ePUB)

Colonialism and the Politics of Performance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Angelia Poon examines how British colonial authority in the nineteenth century was predicated on its being rendered in ways that were recognizably 'English'. Reading a range of texts by authors that include Charlotte Brontë, Mary Seacole, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, and H. Rider Haggard, Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period focuses on the strategies - narrative, illustrative, and rhetorical - used to perform English subjectivity during the time of the British Empire. Characterising these performances, which ranged from the playful, ironic, and fantastical to the morally serious and determinedly didactic, was an emphasis on the corporeal body as not only gendered, racialised, and classed, but as (in)visible, desiring, bound in particular ways to space, and marked by certain physical stylizations and ways of thinking. As she shines a light on the English subject in the act of being and becoming, Poon casts new light on the changing historical circumstances and discontinuities in the performances of Englishness to disclose both the normative power of colonial authority as well as the possibilities for resistance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351940368
• Artikelnr.: 47955961

Autorenporträt

Angelia Poon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
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 Quartermain
Epilogue
Works cited
Index.