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Late Imperial Romance
Language: en
Pages: 206
Authors: John A. McClure
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-07-17 - Publisher: Verso

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As the US imperium lurches towards its economic twilight, comparisons with the fate of the British Empire have become increasingly commonplace.
Rereading the Imperial Romance
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Laura Chrisman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Clarendon Press

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"Chrisman's book demonstrates how South Africa played an important if now overlooked role in British imperial culture, and shows the impact of capitalism itself
Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Cuncun Wu
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-08-02 - Publisher: Routledge

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Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China is the richest exploration to date of late imperial Chinese literati interest in male love. Employing primary so
Agent of Empire
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Brady Harrison
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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At the heart of our ongoing interest in Walker, says Harrison, is the need to understand the ever-shifting ambitions and arguments that have driven American eco
Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: L. Dryden
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-11-24 - Publisher: Springer

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Linda Dryden places Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands , 'Karain', and Lord Jim in the context of the nineteenth-century imperial romance. Through the t