Gender race and the writing of empire : public discourse and the Boer War
by
Krebs, Paula M.
Title
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Gender race and the writing of empire : public discourse and the Boer War
Author
:
Krebs, Paula M.
ISBN
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9780521653220
Personal Author
:
Krebs, Paula M.
Publication Information
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Physical Description
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xii, 205p. ; 24 cm.
Series
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 23
Series Title
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 23
Contents
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1. The war at home -- 2. The concentration camps controversy and the press -- 3. Gender ideology as military policy - the camps, continued -- 4. Cannibals or knights - sexual honor in the propaganda of Arthur Conan Doyle and W. T. Stead -- 5. Interpreting South Africa to Britain - Olive Schreiner, Boers, and Africans -- 6. The imperial imaginary - the press, empire, and the literary figure.
1. The war at home -- 2. The concentration camps controversy and the press --3. Gender ideology as military policy - the camps, continued -- 4. Cannibals or knights - sexual honor in the propaganda of Arthur Conan Doyle and W. T. Stead -- 5. Interpreting South Africa to Britain - Olive Schreiner, Boers, and Africans -- 6. The imperial imaginary - the press, empire, and the literary figure.
Abstract
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"All of London exploded on the night of 18 May 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 gentleman'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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Term
:
South African War, 1899-1902 -- Literature and the war.
South African War, 1899-1902 -- Foreign public opinion, British.
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Race in literature.
Geographic Term
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South Africa -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- South Africa.
South Africa -- Foreign public opinion, British.
South Africa -- In literature.
Electronic Access
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| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
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| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168015729615 | 820.9358 K92G 1999 | 1 |