Gender, race, and the writing of empire : public discourse and the Boer War

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Gender, race, and the writing of empire : public discourse and the Boer War

Title remainder

public discourse and the Boer War

Statement of responsibility

Paula M. Krebs

Creator

• Krebs, Paula M

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Boerenoorlog (Zuid-Afrika)
• Burenkrieg
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Diplomatic relations
• Englisch
• Englisch, ..
• English literature
• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Great Britain
• Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- South Africa
• Imperialism in literature
• Imperialism in literature
• Imperialisme
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Letterkunde
• Literatur
• Literature
• Public opinion, British
• Publieke opinie
• Race in literature
• Race in literature
• Sex role in literature
• Sex role in literature
• South Africa
• South Africa -- Foreign public opinion, British
• South Africa -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
• South Africa -- In literature
• South African War, 1899-1902 -- Foreign public opinion, British
• South African War, 1899-1902 -- Literature and the war
• War and literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

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

Member of

• Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 23
• EBSCO eBook Public Library Collection-North America

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

820.9/358

Index

index present

LC call number

PR129.S6

LC item number

K74 1999eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture

Series volume

23