British Imperial Literature, 1870–1940: Writing and the Administration of Empire

ISBN: 9780521066587 出版年：1998 页码：251 Daniel Bivona Cambridge University Press

Introduction 1. Agents and the problem of agency: the context 2. Why Africa needs Europe: from Livingstone to Stanley 3. Kipling's 'Law' and the division of bureaucratic labor 4. Agent, instrument, and novelist: Cromer, Gordon, Conrad and the problem of imperial character 5. 'Gladness of abasement': T. E. Lawrence and the erotics of imperial discipline 6. Resurrecting individualism: the interwar novels of imperial manners Conclusion: work as rule Bibliography.