{"product_id":"rule-of-darkness-british-literature-and-imperialism-1830-1914-paperback-softback-9780801497674","title":"Rule of Darkness; British Literature and Imperialism, 1830–1914 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780801497674","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRule of Darkness\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBritish Literature and Imperialism, 1830–1914\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatrick Brantlinger (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801497674\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 21 June 1990\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRule of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant contribution to studies seeking to reveal how the English in the nineteenth century created demeaning and often destructive images of Mrica and the East, images that continue to haunt twentieth-century writing, films, and attitudes.\u003c\/p\u003e (Conradiana) \u003cp\u003eAn outstanding analysis of imperialism in 19th-century British literature.... Brantlinger deploys a real wealth of material, providing fresh insights at every turn.\u003c\/p\u003e (Times Higher Education Supplement) \u003cp\u003eThe path-breaking work Brantlinger has done opens up the terrain of Victorian culture in refreshing and remarkable ways. His analysis of the imperialist impulse in many heretofore isolated phases of Victorian culture is both inspiring and dependable, a rare combination. \u003ci\u003eRule of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e will undoubtedly be complemented and extended by the work of others in the near future, but it is hard to see how it could be surpassed.\u003c\/p\u003e (Novel) \u003cp\u003eThis learned and incisive study shows how deeply imperialist assumptions pervade Victorian narratives from the adventure yarn through the realist novel and the 'Imperial Gothic' of fantasy fiction. Brantlinger both colonizes a range of noncanonical texts and explores the imperialist darkness at the heart of such standard authors as Macaulay and Thackeray, Kipling and Conrad.... His mapping of overgrown paths between Victorian liberalism and imperialism, abolitionism and racism, are invaluable guides to the imaginative politics of the last century.\u003c\/p\u003e (Virginia Quarterly Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, \u003ci\u003eRule of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal importance to early and mid-Victorian writers. Patrick Brantlinger asserts that the Empire was central to British culture as a source of ideological and artistic energy, both supported by and lending support to widespread belief in racial superiority, the need to transform \"savagery\" into \"civilization,\" and the urgency of promoting emigration.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRule of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e brings together material from public records, memoirs, popular culture, and canonical literature. Brantlinger explores the influence of the novels of Captain Frederick Marryat, pioneer of British adolescent adventure fiction, and shows the importance of William Makepeace Thackeray's experience of India to his novels. He treats a number of Victorian best sellers previously ignored by literary historians, including the Anglo-Indian writer Philip Meadows Taylor's \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Thug\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSeeta\u003c\/i\u003e. Brantlinger situates explorers' narratives and travelogues by such famous author-adventurers as David Livingstone and Sir Richard Burton in relation to other forms of Victorian and Edwardian prose. Through readings of works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, John Hobson, and many others, he considers representations of Africa, India, and other non-British parts of the world in both fiction and nonfiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe most comprehensive study yet of literature and imperialism in the early and mid-Victorian years, \u003ci\u003eRule of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e offers, in addition, a revisionary interpretation of imperialism as a significant factor in later British cultural history, from the 1880s to World War I. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with Victorian culture and society and, more generally, with the relationship between Victorian writers and imperialism, 'and between racist ideology and patterns of domination in modern history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cb\u003ePART I. DAWN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. From Dawn Island to \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Bringing Up the Empire: Captain Marryats Midshipmen\u003cb\u003ePART II. NOON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Thackeray's India\u003cbr\u003e 4. Black Swans; or, Botany Bay Eclogues\u003cbr\u003e 5. The New Crusades\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Genealogy of the Myth of the \"Dark Continent\"\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Well at Cawnpore: Literary Representations of the Indian Mutiny of 1857\u003cb\u003ePART III. DUSK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Imperial Gothic: Atavism and the Occult in the British Adventure Novel, 1880–1914\u003cbr\u003e 9. Epilogue: Kurtz's \"Darkness\" and Conrad's \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702058086680,"sku":"9780801497674","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/rule-of-darkness-british-literature-and-imperialism-1830-1914-paperback-softback-9780801497674","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}