196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1983. In the late nineteenth century as the European powers divided the world between themselves and scrambled over Africa, so their writers went with them, recording in fiction, as well as in historical narrative, the events and issues of the colonial expansion. The literature which they left behind them is the subject of this book.
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Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Robinson Crusoe and the Reading of Colonial Literature; 1. Antecedents 2. Colonial Fiction: A Literary History 3. Imperial Landscapes 4. Slaves and Mistresses 5. Justifications of Empire 6. The Unexpected Elite 7. Colonial Theory and Domestic Practice; Bibliographies; Index
Biography
Hugh Ridley
