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

Angelia Poon

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
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