{"product_id":"taming-cannibals-race-and-the-victorians-hardback-9780801450198","title":"Taming Cannibals; Race and the Victorians (Hardback) 9780801450198","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTaming Cannibals\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRace and the Victorians\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\"\u003e9780801450198\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 September 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 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\u003eTaming Cannibals\u003c\/i\u003e itself provides a nuanced, powerfully told, and richly detailed story of the ways in which the paradox of racial and imperial thought and writing has been, and continues to be, constitutive of the West's often agonistic but no less humanly costly self-understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e (Victorian Studies) \u003cp\u003eReaders familiar with Patrick Brantlinger's many distinguished books on Victorian literature will welcome his most recent contribution, \u003ci\u003eTaming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians\u003c\/i\u003e, which he describes as the third in a 'trilogy' of Victorian and postcolonial studies projects that include his groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eRule of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDark Vanishings\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eTaming Cannibals\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on 'various contradictions inherent in racist and imperialist ideology' (p. 2), especially its so-called civilizing mission, and explores ways in which conceptions of race helped Victorians interpret and classify humans elsewhere, 'including themselves' (p. 19).\u003c\/p\u003e (Studies in English Literature)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTaming Cannibals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire\u003c\/b\u003e. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only approximate, yet the \"civilizing mission\" was viewed as the ultimate justification for imperialism. Similarly, the supposedly unshakeable certainty of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority was routinely undercut by widespread fears about racial degeneration through contact with \"lesser\" races or concerns that Anglo-Saxons might be superseded by something superior—an even \"fitter\" or \"higher\" race or species. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrantlinger traces the development of those fears through close readings of a wide range of texts—including \u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e by Daniel Defoe, \u003ci\u003eFiji and the Fijians\u003c\/i\u003e by Thomas Williams, \u003ci\u003eDaily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians\u003c\/i\u003e by James Bonwick, \u003ci\u003eThe Descent of Man\u003c\/i\u003e by Charles Darwin, \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e by Joseph Conrad, \u003ci\u003eCulture and Anarchy\u003c\/i\u003e by Matthew Arnold, \u003ci\u003eShe\u003c\/i\u003e by H. Rider Haggard, and \u003ci\u003eThe War of the Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e by H. G. Wells. Throughout the wide-ranging, capacious, and rich \u003ci\u003eTaming Cannibals\u003c\/i\u003e, Brantlinger combines the study of literature with sociopolitical history and postcolonial theory in novel ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52541629333784,"sku":"9780801450198","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/taming-cannibals-race-and-the-victorians-hardback-9780801450198","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}