Angelia Poon examines the ways in which 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 BrontÃ, 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.
Angelia Poon examines the ways in which 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 BrontÃ, 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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Angelia Poon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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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.
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.
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