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Half a Century of the British Empire; A History of the Kingdom and the People, from 1800 to 1850
Exploration, Religion and Empire in the Sixteenth-century Ibero-Atlantic World
The Iberian conquest of the Atlantic at the beginning of the sixteenth century had a notable impact on the formation of the new world order in which Christian Europe claimed …
Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800–1860
Anna Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnston argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, caught between …
Before the Empire of English: Literature, Provinciality, and Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Before the Empire of English offers a broad re-examination of Eighteenth-century British literary culture, centred around issues of language, nationalism, and provinciality. It …
Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica
Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the first in Art History - to juxtapose …
Before the Empire of English: Literature, Provinciality, and Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Before the Empire of English offers a broad re-examination of Eighteenth-century British literary culture, centred around issues of language, nationalism, and provinciality. It …
A Female Poetics of Empire
Many well-known male writers produced fictions about colonial spaces and discussed the advantages of realism over romance, and vice versa, in the ‘art of fiction’ debate of the …
The Transformation of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
David Womersley's book investigates Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as both a work of literature and a work of history, examining its style and irony, …
George Eliot and the British Empire
In this innovative study Nancy Henry introduces a new set of facts that place George Eliot’s life and work within the contexts of mid nineteenth-century British colonialism and …
Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain
In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. …
On Empire, Liberty, and Reform
The great British statesman Edmund Burke had a genius for political argument, and his impassioned speeches and writings shaped English public life in the second half of the …
Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire
All of London exploded on the night of May 18, 1900, in the biggest West End party ever seen. The mix of media manipulation, patriotism, and class, race, and gender politics that …