Enacting Englishness in the Victorian period : colonialism and the politics of performance
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Enacting Englishness in the Victorian period : colonialism and the politics of performance
Ashgate, c2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-169) and index
Contents of Works
- 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