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  1. Colonial transitions
    literature and culture in the late Victorian age
    Author: Zulli, Tania
    Published: c2011
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Bern

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783034311212; 9783035103595
    Series: Victorian & Edwardian studies ; 2
    Subjects: English fiction; Imperialism in literature; Colonies in literature; Kolonialliteratur; Englisch
    Other subjects: Haggard, H. Rider (1856-1925); Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Haggard, H. Rider (1856-1925); Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
    Scope: 182 p
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    pt. 1. Colonialism and textuality -- pt. 2. Henry Rider Haggard -- pt. 3. Robert Louis Stevenson
  2. Colonial Transitions
    Literature and Culture in the Late Victorian Age
    Author: Zulli, Tania
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern

    This volume offers an analysis of colonial literature in the late Victorian age with a specific focus on the works of Henry Rider Haggard (1865-1925) and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Starting from the investigation of the nineteenth century as... more

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    This volume offers an analysis of colonial literature in the late Victorian age with a specific focus on the works of Henry Rider Haggard (1865-1925) and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Starting from the investigation of the nineteenth century as a period of great historical complexity, it places colonial narratives in a wide panorama of social and cultural developments, illustrating the role played by both adventure romances and imperial novels on the ideological and epistemic fabric of this age. By considering late nineteenth-century writing in the context of a multifarious background, t

     
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    ISBN: 9783034311212
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    Contents; Acknowledgements 7; Introduction 9; PART I: Colonialism and Textuality 17; Transitions in Colonial Thinking: Towards New Epistemic Models 17; Between Science and Moral: Changing Racial Patterns 29; Challenging Cultural Absolutes: the Literary 'Other' in Late Victorian England 41; Contextualizing the Novel: Colonialism, Literature and the Value of Fiction 52; PART II: Henry Rider Haggard 67; 'Ideal Colonies': King Solomon's Mines and British Regeneration 72; She and the Limits of Science 100; PART III: Robert Louis Stevenson 119

    "The Beach of Falesá" and the Demystification of Empire 125The Ebb-Tide, or the Crisis of the Intellectual Between Two Worlds 143; Bibliography 165; Index 179;