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Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire: Public Discourse and the Boer War (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Paula M. Krebs is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire: Public Discourse and the Boer War (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) about?
This book looks at the ways Victorian ideas about gender and race supported British imperialism at the turn of the century. It examines the Boer War of 1899-1902 through the war writings of literary figures such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Olive Schreiner, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, and also through newspapers, propaganda, and other forms of public debate in print. Paula M. Krebs' analysis of the part played by ideas about gender and race in public discourse makes a significant new contribution to the study of British imperialism.
Who reads Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire: Public Discourse and the Boer War (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Paula M. Krebs
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521653220
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History
Other editions & translations
- Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire: Public Discourse and the Boer War (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 23) (1999)
- Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire: Public Discourse and the Boer War (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 23) (2004)
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