British imperial literature, 1870-1940 : writing and the administration of empire
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British imperial literature, 1870-1940 : writing and the administration of empire
Cambridge University Press, 1998
- : hbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Bibliography: p. 227-233
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
British Imperial Fiction, 1870-1940 traces the gradual process by which the colonial bureaucratic subject was constructed in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Daniel Bivona's study offers insightful readings of a number of influential writers who were involved in promoting the ideology of bureaucratic self-sacrifice, the most important of whom are Stanley, Kipling and T. E. Lawrence. He examines how this governing ideology is treated in the novels of Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and George Orwell. By placing the complexities of individual texts in a much larger historical context, this study makes the original claim that the colonial bureaucrat played an ambiguous but nonetheless central role in both pro-imperial and anti-imperial discourse, his own power relationship with bureaucratic superiors shaping the terms in which the proper relationship between colonizer and colonized was debated.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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