Imperium of the Soul - The Political and Aesthetic Imagination of Edwardian Imperialists

Informationen zum Autor Norman Etherington is Professor Emeritus of Imperial and Commonwealth History at the University of Western Australia Klappentext A new interpretation of the creative work of well known British imperialists of the late nineteenth and early 20th century, exploring their links with the revolutionary psychological theories of Freud. Zusammenfassung A new interpretation of the creative work of well known British imperialists of the late nineteenth and early 20th century! exploring their links with the revolutionary psychological theories of Freud. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Rider Haggard, imperialism and the layered personality 2. Love and loathing: Rudyard Kipling's India 3. How Herbert Baker created an architecture of imperial power 4. Joseph Conrad: Kipling's secret sharer 5. Elgar and the Gordon Symphony 6. John Buchan and the loathly opposite 7. Lawrence of Arabia: great white hope of the Edwardian imperial romancers Epilogue: The death-knell of the imperial romance and imperial ruleIndex

Product details

• Authors: Norman Etherington
• Assisted by: Andrew Thompson (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781526106063
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0606-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Studies in Imperialism; Studies in Imperialism Mup; Studies in Imperialism
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories