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Gender, race, and the writing of empire : public discourse and the Boer War /
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 produced the 'spontaneous' festivities of Mafeking Night begins this analysis of the cultural politics of late-...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
23. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 produced the 'spontaneous' festivities of Mafeking Night begins this analysis of the cultural politics of late-Victorian imperialism. Paula M. Krebs examines 'the last of the gentlemen's wars' - the Boer War of 1899-1902 - and the struggles to maintain an imperialist hegemony in a twentieth-century world, through the war writings of Arthur Conan Doyle, Olive Schreiner, H. Rider Haggard, and Rudyard Kipling, as well as contemporary journalism, propaganda, and other forms of public discourse. Her feminist analysis of such matters as the sexual honor of the British soldier at war, the deaths of thousands of women and children in 'concentration camps', and new concepts of race in South Africa marks this book as a significant contribution to British imperial studies. -- Provided by publisher. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 205 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-200) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511033168 9780511033162 0511006993 9780511006999 0511117817 9780511117817 9780511484858 0511484852 9780511048395 0511048394 1107117666 9781107117662 0511149654 9780511149658 0511323158 9780511323157 1280153873 9781280153877 |