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Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918
Elleke (Ed) Boehmer
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Description for Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918
Paperback. Editor(s): Boehmer, Elleke. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
`The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) `Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . .plucked, they fade, And lose the colours Nature on them laid.' (Toru Dutt) This is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in English, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from the phase of British expansionist imperialism known as high empire. A rich and starling ... Read more
`The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) `Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . .plucked, they fade, And lose the colours Nature on them laid.' (Toru Dutt) This is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in English, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from the phase of British expansionist imperialism known as high empire. A rich and starling ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199555598
SKU
V9780199555598
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About Elleke (Ed) Boehmer
Elleke Boehmer is Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds.
Reviews for Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918
it is hard to fault Boehmer's choice of texts and the perspicacity of her comments
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