Writing The Colonial Adventure

Author : Robert Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521481902

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Writing the Colonial Adventure by Robert Dixon Pdf

This book is an exploration of popular late nineteenth-century texts that show Australia - along with Africa, India and the Pacific Islands - to be a preferred site of imperial adventure. Focusing on the period from the advent of the new imperialism in the 1870s to the outbreak of World War I, Robert Dixon looks at a selection of British and Australian writers. Their books, he argues, offer insights into the construction of empire, masculinity, race, and Australian nationhood and identity. Writing the Colonial Adventure shows that the genre of adventure/romance was highly popular throughout this period. The book examines the variety of themes within their narrative form that captured many aspects of imperial ideology. In considering the broader ramifications of these works, Professor Dixon develops an original approach to popular fiction, both for its own sake and as a mode of cultural history.

Author : Robert Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521484391

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Writing the Colonial Adventure by Robert Dixon Pdf

This book explores imperial ideology through the narrative themes of popular texts.

Author : James Skipp Borlase
Publisher : Hansebooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3348103282

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Stirring Tales of Colonial Adventure by James Skipp Borlase Pdf

Stirring Tales of Colonial Adventure is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Author : J. Edwards,R. Graulund
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230294769

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Postcolonial Travel Writing by J. Edwards,R. Graulund Pdf

With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking of a vibrant and highly popular but also volatile genre that has seen many changes in recent years.

Author : J. Zilcosky
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1403967679

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Kafka's Travels by J. Zilcosky Pdf

In 1916, Kafka writes of The Sugar Baron , a dime-store colonial adventure novel, '[it] affects me so deeply that I feel it is about myself, or as if it were the book of rules for my life.' John Zilcosky reveals that this perhaps surprising statement - made by the Prague-bound poet of modern isolation - is part of a network of remarks that exemplify Kafka's ongoing preoccupation with popular travel writing, exoticism, and colonial fantasy. Taking this biographical peculiarity as a starting point, Kafka's Travels elegantly re-reads Kafka's major works ( Amerika , The Trial , The Castle ) through the lens of fin-de siecle travel culture. Making use of previously unexplored literary and cultural materials - travel diaries, train schedules, tour guides, adventure novels - Zilcosky argues that Kafka's uniquely modern metaphorics of alienation emerges out of the author's complex encounter with the utopian travel discourses of his day.

Author : Ailise Bulfin
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786832108

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Gothic Invasions by Ailise Bulfin Pdf

What do tales of stalking vampires, restless Egyptian mummies, foreign master criminals, barbarian Eastern hordes and stomping Prussian soldiers have in common? As Gothic Invasions explains, they may all be seen as instances of invasion fiction, a paranoid fin-de-siècle popular literary phenomenon that responded to prevalent societal fears of the invasion of Britain by an array of hostile foreign forces in the period before the First World War. Gothic Invasions traces the roots of invasion anxiety to concerns about the downside of Britain’s continuing imperial expansion: fears of growing inter-European rivalry and colonial wars and rebellion. It explores how these fears circulated across the British empire and were expressed in fictional narratives drawing strongly upon and reciprocally transforming the conventions and themes of gothic writing. Gothic Invasions enhances our understanding of the interchange between popular culture and politics at this crucial historical juncture, and demonstrates the instrumentality of the ever-versatile and politically-charged gothic mode in this process.

Author : Eugene Benson,L.W. Conolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1950 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134468485

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Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English by Eugene Benson,L.W. Conolly Pdf

" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.

Author : Thomas Scanlan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521643058

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Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583-1671 by Thomas Scanlan Pdf

Looks at implications of colonialism for both English and Americans.

Author : Martin Green
Publisher : New York : Basic Books
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1979-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008167358

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Dreams Adv Deeds Emp by Martin Green Pdf

Author : A. Dirk Moses
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1571814116

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Genocide and Settler Society by A. Dirk Moses Pdf

Colonial Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched phenomenon. This volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide and for the first time places them in a global context. Beginning with the arrival of the British in 1788 and extending to the 1960s, the authors identify the moments of radicalization and the escalation of British violence and ethnic engineering aimed at the Indigenous populations, while carefully distinguishing between local massacres, cultural genocide, and genocide itself. These essays reflect a growing concern with the nature of settler society in Australia and in particular with the fate of the tens of thousands of children who were forcibly taken away from their Aboriginal families by state agencies. Long considered a relatively peaceful settlement, Australian society contained many of the pathologies that led to the exterminatory and eugenic policies of twentieth century Europe.

Author : Elspeth Tilley
Publisher : Brill
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401208703

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White Vanishing by Elspeth Tilley Pdf

The story of the vulnerable white person vanishing without trace into the harsh Australian landscape is a potent and compelling element in multiple genres of mainstream Australian culture. It has been sung in “Little Boy Lost,” brought to life on the big screen in Picnic at Hanging Rock, immortalized in Henry Lawson’s poems of lost tramps, and preserved in the history books’ tales of Leichhardt or Burke and Wills wandering in mad circles. A world-wide audience has also witnessed the many-layered and oddly strident nature of Australian disappearance symbolism in media coverage of contemporary disappearances, such as those of Azaria Chamberlain and Peter Falconio. White Vanishing offers a revealing and challenging re-examination of Australian disappearance mythology, exposing the political utility at its core. Drawing on wide-ranging examples of the white-vanishing myth, the book provides evidence that disappearance mythology encapsulates some of the most dominant and durable categories at the heart of white Australian culture, and that many of those ideas have their origin in colonial mechanisms of inequality and oppression. White Vanishing deliberately (and perhaps controversially) reminds readers that, while power is never absolute or irresistible, some narrative threads carry a particularly authoritative inheritance of ideas and power-relations through time.

Author : Juliet Shields
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009003056

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Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century by Juliet Shields Pdf

Introducing the neglected tradition of Scottish women's writing to readers who may already be familiar with English Victorian realism or the historical romances of Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, this book corrects male-dominated histories of the Scottish novel by demonstrating how women appropriated the masculine genre of romance.

Author : Nicholas Halter
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760464158

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Australian Travellers in the South Seas by Nicholas Halter Pdf

This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through over 100 hitherto largely unexplored accounts of travel, the author explores how representations of the Pacific Islands in letters, diaries, reminiscences, books, newspapers and magazines contributed to popular ideas of the Pacific Islands in Australia. It offers a range of valuable insights into continuities and changes in Australian regional perspectives, showing that ordinary Australians were more closely connected to the Pacific Islands than has previously been acknowledged. Addressing the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, this cultural history probes issues of nation and empire, race and science, commerce and tourism by focusing on significant episodes and encounters in history. This is a foundational text for future studies of Australia’s relations with the Pacific, and histories of travel generally.

Author : Percival Christopher Wren
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066358525

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Fort in the Jungle by Percival Christopher Wren Pdf

"The jungle fort of Houi-Ninh, its back to the swift and mighty river Meh Song, its front and flanks to the illimitable Annamese jungle, stood like a little rock, almost submerged beneath a deep green sea. Behind it, a theoretically pacified land of peaceful if resentful villages, set in rice-field, forest, plain and swamp; before it, the unconquerable jungle, its dank and gloomy depths the home and defence of fierce swift jungle-men, predatory, savage, and devilishly cruel. And beyond that vast uncharted sea of densest forest and impenetrable swamp, a further terra incognita; and then China, inimical, enigmatic and sinister..." 'Fort in the Jungle' is a novel by Percival Wren Christopher set in the Indo-China forest land. It tells of the adventures of Sinclair Noel Brodie Dysart, a former trooper in Her Majesty's Lifeguards, and who is now by an interesting series of events, a legionnaire in the French Foreign Legion stationed in the Annamese jungle.

Author : Charles Forsdick,Zoë Kinsley,Kathryn Walchester
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783089239

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Keywords for Travel Writing Studies by Charles Forsdick,Zoë Kinsley,Kathryn Walchester Pdf

In its attention to the ‘keywords of travel’, Keywords for Travel Writing Studies’ takes into account the established status of studies in travel writing and the field’s significance for an audience beyond the academy. It responds to what might be described as the ‘mobility turn’ in the arts and humanities over the past two decades. Each entry in the volume is around 1,000 words, and the style is more essayistic than encyclopaedic, with contributors providing a reflection on their chosen keyword from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The emphasis on travelogues and other cultural representations of mobility drawn from a range of national and linguistic traditions ensures that the volume has a comparative dimension; the aim is to give an overview of each term in its historical and theoretical complexity, providing readers with a clear sense of how the selected words are essential to a critical understanding of travel writing. Each entry is complemented by an annotated bibliography of five essential items suggesting further reading.