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Imperial Desire : Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature.
Title:
Imperial Desire : Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature.
Author:
Holden, Philip.
ISBN:
9780816692606
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (362 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: Frontiers and Discoveries -- ONE: The Sublimation of Desire to Apocalyptic Passion in Defoe's Crusoe Trilogy -- TWO: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Sapphic Vision -- THREE: The Guise of Friendship -- PART II: Queering the New Imperialism -- FOUR: Lingering Pleasures, Perverted Texts: Colonial Desire in Kipling's Anglo-India -- FIVE: Fantasies of "Lady Pioneers," between Narrative and Theory -- SIX: Redressing the Empire: Anthony Trollope and British Gender Anxiety in "The Banks of the Jordan" -- PART III: Century's End: Conrad's Queer Indirections -- SEVEN: From Mimicry to Menace: Conrad and Late-Victorian Masculinity -- EIGHT: "Girl! What? Did I Mention a Girl?" The Economy of Desire in Heart of Darkness -- NINE: Homoerotic Heroics, Domestic Discipline: Conrad and Ford's Romance -- PART IV: Other Colonialisms -- TEN: "Only Cathect": Queer Heirs and Narrative Desires in Howards End -- ELEVEN: "Unarm, Eros!" Adventure, Homoeroticism, and Divine Order in Prester John -- TWELVE: Many Lips Will I Kiss: The Queer Foreplay of "the East" in Russian Aestheticism -- THIRTEEN: Sex/Race Wars on the Frontier: Homosexuality and Colonialism in The Golden Notebook -- CODA: Rethinking Colonial Discourse Analysis and Queer Studies -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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