Gender, race, and the writing of empire : public discourse and the Boer War / Paula M. Krebs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krebs, Paula M., author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 23.

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South African War, 1899-1902--Literature and the war.

South African War, 1899-1902.

South African War, 1899-1902--Foreign public opinion, British.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Imperialism in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Race in literature.

South Africa--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

South Africa.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--South Africa.

Great Britain.

South Africa--Foreign public opinion, British.

South Africa--In literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 205 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Gender, Race, & the Writing of Empire

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

All of London exploded on the night of May 18, 1900, in the biggest West End party ever seen. The mix of media manipulation, patriotism, and class, race, and gender politics that produced the 'spontaneous' festivities of Mafeking Night begins this analysis of the cultural politics of late-Victorian imperialism. Paula M. Krebs examines 'the last of the gentlemen's wars' - the Boer War of 1899-1902 - and the struggles to maintain an imperialist hegemony in a twentieth-century world, through the war writings of Arthur Conan Doyle, Olive Schreiner, H. Rider Haggard, and Rudyard Kipling, as well as contemporary journalism, propaganda, and other forms of public discourse. Her feminist analysis of such matters as the sexual honor of the British soldier at war, the deaths of thousands of women and children in 'concentration camps', and new concepts of race in South Africa marks this book as a significant contribution to British imperial studies.

Contents:

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-200) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11766-6

0-511-14965-4

0-511-32315-8

0-511-48485-2

0-511-04839-4

0-511-11781-7

1-280-15387-3

0-521-65322-3

OCLC:

475870358