Etherington Imperium of the soul

The political and aesthetic imagination of Edwardian imperialists
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0607-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 144, 288 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

A new interpretation of the creative work of well known British imperialists of the late nineteenth and early 20th century, exploring their links with the revolutionary psychological theories of Freud.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Etherington, Norman

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Rider Haggard, imperialism and the layered personality
2. Love and loathing: Rudyard Kipling's India
3. How Herbert Baker created an architecture of imperial power
4. Joseph Conrad: Kipling's secret sharer
5. Elgar and the Gordon Symphony
6. John Buchan and the loathly opposite
7. Lawrence of Arabia: great white hope of the Edwardian imperial romancers
Epilogue: The death-knell of the imperial romance and imperial rule
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Norman Etherington is Professor Emeritus of Imperial and Commonwealth History at the University of Western Australia