George Eliot and the British Empire

Informationen zum Autor NANCY HENRY grew up along lakes and rivers in the South, where she developed a love for open water. For many years, she led a creative team that designed learning programs for national service and educational clients. Currently, she lives in Portland, Oregon, where she bikes, swims and enjoys volunteering. Klappentext Situates George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and imperialism. Zusammenfassung In this study Nancy Henry introduces a set of facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and imperialism. Henry examines Eliot's roles as an investor in colonial stocks! a parent to emigrant sons and a reader of colonial literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations and note on the texts; Introduction; 1. Imperial knowledge: George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and the literature of empire; 2. 'Colleagues in failure': emigration and the Lewes boys; 3. Investing in empire; 4. Daniel Deronda, Impressions of Theophratus Such, and the emergence of imperialism; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Nancy Henry, Nancy (State University of New York Henry
• Mitarbeit: Gillian Beer (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521027915
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02791-5
• Seiten: 200
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte