Victorian Literature and Postcolonial Studies - (Postcolonial Literary Studies) by Patrick Brantlinger (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This book surveys the impact of the British Empire on nineteenth-century British literature from a postcolonial perspective.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This book surveys the impact of the British Empire on nineteenth-century British literature from a postcolonial perspective. It explains both pro-imperialist themes and attitudes in works by major Victorian authors, and also points of resistance to and criticisms of the Empire such as abolitionism, as well as the first stirrings of nationalism in India and elsewhere.Using nineteenth-century literary works as illustrations, it analyzes several major debates, central to imperial and postcolonial studies, about imperial historiography and Marxism, gender and race, Orientalism, mimicry, and subalternity and representation. And it provides an in-depth examination of works by several major Victorian authors-Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Disraeli, Tennyson, Yeats, Kipling, and Conrad among them - in the imperial context. Key Features: *Links literary texts to debates in postcolonial studies*Discusses works not included in standard literary histories*Provides in-depth discussions and comparisons of major authors: Disraeli and George Eliot; Dickens and Charlotte Brontë; Tennsyon and Yeats*Provides a guide to further reading and a timeline<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This series examines how Postcolonial Studies reconfigures the major periods and areas of literature. The books relate key literary and cultural texts both to their historical and geographical contexts, and to contemporary issues of neo-colonialism and global inequality. Each volume not only provides a comprehensive survey of the existing field of scholarship and debate, but is also an original intervention in its own right. Each book includes: a time line; an introductory literature survey; discussion of critical, theoretical, historical and political debates; exemplary critical readings of literary texts; and further reading.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>With clarity and economy, a broad vista of political, socio-cultural and geographical factors are viewed, combining perspectives on the imperial source material with the critiques offered by postcolonial reassessments - aesthetic and ethical. Brantlinger's longstanding scholarly expertise in this area is adroitly condensed into a mere 180 pages ... this concise yet considerable scope is the work's strength and should see it become a necessary guide to an almost unmanageably complex area.</p>--Routledge ABES<br><br>"Begins with a wide-ranging, elegantly syynthesised, and historically nuanced overview of the multifarious impact of Empire on nineteenth-century, literature, historiography and cultural commentary. ... Sure to invite scholars to engage .. and further develop these vital and unfinished areas of research."--Anita Rupprecht, University of Brighton "Wasafiri "<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy Professor of English and Victorian Studies (Emeritus) at Indiana University. He is the author or editor of 13 books including Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1900 (Cornell University Press, 1988), Dark Vanishings: Nineteenth-Century Discourse about the Extinction of Primitive Races (Cornell University Press, 2003), and The Blackwell Companion to the Victorian Novel (Blackwell Publishers, 2002), edited with William Thesing.<p>
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