Imperial masochism : British fiction, fantasy, and social class /
British imperialism's favorite literary narrative might seem to be conquest. But real British conquests also generated a surprising cultural obsession with suffering, sacrifice, defeat, and melancholia. "There was," writes John Kucich, "seemingly a different crucifixion scene mar...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Melancholy magic: Robert Louis Stevenson's evangelical anti-imperialism
- Olive Schreiner's preoedipal dreams: feminism, class, and the South African War
- Sadomasochism and the magical group: Kipling's middle-class imperialism
- The masochism of the craft: Conrad's imperial professionalism.