Literature And Imperialism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   • Robert Giddings

   Pages 1-24

3. The Cross of St George: The Burden of Contemporary Irish Literature

   • Daphne B. Watson

   Pages 25-43

4. Race and Empire in the Stories of R. M. Ballantyne

   • Christopher Parker

   Pages 44-63

5. From Newbury to Salman Rushdie: Teaching the Literature of Imperialism in Higher Education

   • Dennis Butts

   Pages 64-74

6. Ironies of Progress: Joseph Conrad and Imperialism in Africa

   • D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke

   Pages 75-111

7. Imperial Integration on Wheels: The Car, the British and the Cape-to-Cairo Route

   • James B. Wolf

   Pages 112-127

8. The Intransigent Internal Colony: Narrative Strategies in Modern South African Popular Fiction

   • John A. Stotesbury

   Pages 128-149

9. T. E. Lawrence: The Myth and the Message

   • John M. Mackenzie

   Pages 150-181

10. Cry God for Harry, England and Lord Kitchener: A Tale of Tel-el-Kebir, Suakin, Wadi Halfa and Omdurman

    • Robert Giddings

    Pages 182-219

11. Back Matter

    Pages 220-228

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This collection of essays is concerned with the impact of the experience of empire upon the literary imagination as far as Ireland, Africa and India are concerned. These essays examine the manner in which British imperial experience has been expressed in literature. The contributors discuss Conrad, Forster, Ballantyne, Rushdie, Lawrence of Arabia, Anglo-Irish writers, and such popular classics as 'The Four Feathers'. There is a select bibliography to encourage further reading.

• Africa
• African
• empire
• England
• English literature
• fiction
• god
• imperialism
• integration
• kitchen
• literature

• Department of Communication and Media, Dorset Institute, UK

  Robert Giddings

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