Norman Etherington

Imperium of the soul

The political and aesthetic imagination of Edwardian imperialists

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Produktbeschreibung

A new interpretation of the creative work of well known British imperialists of the late nineteenth and early 20th century, exploring their links with the revolutionary psychological theories of Freud.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 615g
• ISBN-13: 9781526106056
• ISBN-10: 1526106051
• Artikelnr.: 46459646

Autorenporträt

Norman Etherington is Professor Emeritus of Imperial and Commonwealth History at the University of Western Australia

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Rider Haggard, imperialism and the layered personality 2.
Love and loathing: Rudyard Kipling's India 3. How Herbert Baker created an
architecture of imperial power 4. Joseph Conrad: Kipling's secret sharer 5.
Elgar and the Gordon Symphony 6. John Buchan and the loathly opposite 7.
Lawrence of Arabia: great white hope of the Edwardian imperial romancers
Epilogue: The death-knell of the imperial romance and imperial rule Index