Victorian Narrative Technologies in the Middle East

Informationen zum Autor Cara Murray is an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston-Downtown. Klappentext Using narrative theory and postcolonial theory, this study reveals the cultural changes that turned England from a nation that abstained from investing in the internationally conceived Suez Canal to an imperial power who, by 1875, owned it. Arguing that literary genre was itself a technology that spread imperialism, Murray shows how roads, canals, and novels colonized the Middle East. Zusammenfassung Using narrative theory and postcolonial theory, this study reveals the cultural changes that turned England from a nation that abstained from investing in the internationally conceived Suez Canal to an imperial power who, by 1875, owned it. Arguing that literary genre was itself a technology that spread imperialism, Murray shows how roads, canals, and novels colonized the Middle East. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments. Introduction: The Suez Canal and the Technologies of the Novel 1. French Imports: The Entrepreneur in England, Deciphering de Lesseps 2. English Exports: Romantic Investments, Novel Technologies, and Disraeli’s Tancred 3. Domesticating Egypt: Women’s Writing, Space, and Everyday-Living Abroad 4. World-Girdling Technologies: Around the World Travel Narratives of the 1870s. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index

Product details

• Authors: Cara Murray, Cara (University of Houston-Downtown Murray, Murray Cara
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2008
• EAN: 9780415957915
• ISBN: 978-0-415-95791-5
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory; Literary Criticism and Cultura; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature