| Description |
1 online resource (x, 258 pages) |
| Contents |
Melancholy magic: Robert Louis Stevenson's evangelical anti-imperialism -- Olive Schreiner's preoedipal dreams: feminism, class, and the South African War -- Sadomasochism and the magical group: Kipling's middle-class imperialism -- The masochism of the craft: Conrad's imperial professionalism |
| Summary |
British imperialism's favorite literary narrative might seem to be conquest. But real British conquests also generated a surprising cultural obsession with suffering, sacrifice, defeat, and melancholia. "There was," writes John Kucich, "seemingly a different crucifixion scene marking the historical gateway to each colonial theater." In Imperial Masochism, Kucich reveals the central role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. Placing the colonial writers Robert Louis Stevenson, Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad in their cultural context, Kucich shows how the ideological and psychological dynamics of empire, particularly its reorganization of class identities at the colonial periphery, depended on figurations of masochism. --From publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Masochism in literature.
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Social classes in literature.
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Imperialism in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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British colonies
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English fiction
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Imperialism in literature
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Masochism in literature
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Social classes in literature
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Imperialisme.
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Sociale klassen.
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Masochisme.
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Engels.
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Bellettrie.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400827404 |
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140082740X |
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1282129686 |
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9781282129689 |
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