| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 335 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Philip Holden and Richard J. Ruppel -- The sublimation of desire to apocalyptic passion in Defoe's Crusoe trilogy / Hans Turley -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Sapphic vision / John Beynon -- The guise of friendship / Terry Goldie -- Lingering pleasures, perverted texts : colonial desire in Kipling's Anglo-India / Anjali Arondekar -- Fantasies of "lady pioneers," between narrative and theory / Christopher Lane -- Redressing the Empire : Anthony Trollope and British gender anxiety on "The banks of the Jordan" / Mark Forrester -- From mimicry to menace : Conrad and late Victorian masculinity / Tim Middleton -- Girl! What? Did I mention a girl? : the economy of desire in Heart of darkness / Richard J. Ruppel -- Homoerotic heroics, domestic discipline: Conrad and Ford's romance / Sarah Cole -- Only cathect : queer heirs and narrative desires in Howards End / Lois Cucullu -- Unarm, Eros! : adventure, homoeroticism, and divine order in Prester John / Maria Davidis -- Many lips will I kiss : the queer foreplay of "the east" in Russian aestheticism / Dennis Denisoff -- Sex/race wars on the frontier : homosexuality and colonialism in The golden notebook / Joseph A. Boone -- Coda : rethinking colonial discourse analysis and queer studies / Philip Holden |
| Summary |
An exploration of the intersection of colonialism and homosexuality in fiction and travel writing, this volume brings together two dynamic fields of academic inquiry: colonial discourse analysis and queer theory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain
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Imperialism in literature.
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Homosexuality and literature -- Colonies -- Great Britain
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Colonies in literature.
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Desire in literature.
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Sex in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Colonies in literature
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Desire in literature
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English literature
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Homosexuality and literature
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Imperialism in literature
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Sex in literature
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Holden, Philip, 1962-
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Ruppel, Richard R., 1953-
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| ISBN |
9780816692606 |
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0816692602 |
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