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Adopting a postcolonial perspective, this survey traces the influence of the British Empire on nineteenth-century British literature, closely reading the work of several major Victorian authors: Dickens, Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Disraeli, Tennyson, Yeats, Kipling, and Conrad. The book discusses pro-imperialist themes and attitudes in works by major Victorian authors and the attempts at resistance to and criticisms of the Empire, such as abolitionism and nationalism. Grounding its argument in nineteenth-century literary texts, the volume illuminates several major debates central to imperial and postcolonial studies. They concern imperial historiography and Marxism, gender and race, Orientalism, mimicry, and subalternity and representation. (Vol 52, No 3) Review What Brantlinger's book provides is a handy roadmap to the affiliations between an important branch of contemporary thought and the Victorian traditions and histories that have informed it. It is sure to become a standard text in this vital area of research. (Robert D. Aguirre Victorian Studies ) Review Patrick Brantlinger's beautifully executed little masterpiece, a volume that manages in less than 200 pages to survey an

Who reads Victorian Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Postcolonial Literary Studies)?

Author

Patrick Brantlinger

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780748633043

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction