Paula M. Krebs

Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire

Public Discourse and the Boer War
Herausgeber: Beer, Gillian

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at the ways Victorian ideas about gender and race supported British imperialism at the turn of the century. It examines the Boer War of 1899-1902 through the war writings of literary figures such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Olive Schreiner, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, and also through newspapers, propaganda, and other forms of public debate in print. Paula M. Krebs' analysis of the part played by ideas about gender and race in public discourse makes a significant new contribution to the study of British imperialism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780521607728
• ISBN-10: 0521607728
• Artikelnr.: 21657503

Inhaltsangabe

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
Notes
Works cited.