1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784398303321

Titolo

Imperial desire [[electronic resource] ] : dissident sexualities and colonial literature / / Philip Holden and Richard J. Ruppel, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8166-9260-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HoldenPhilip <1962->

RuppelRichard R. <1953->

Disciplina

820.9/353

Soggetti

Colonies in literature

Desire in literature

English literature - History and criticism

Homosexuality and literature - Great Britain - Colonies

Homosexuality and literature - Great Britain

Imperialism in literature

Sex in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Philip Holden and Richard J. Ruppel -- The sublimation of desire to apocalyptic passion in Defoe's Crusoe trilogy / Hans Turley -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Sapphic vision / John Beynon -- The guise of friendship / Terry Goldie -- Lingering pleasures, perverted texts : colonial desire in Kipling's Anglo-India / Anjali Arondekar -- Fantasies of "lady pioneers," between narrative and theory / Christopher Lane -- Redressing the Empire : Anthony Trollope and British gender anxiety on "The banks of the Jordan" / Mark Forrester -- From mimicry to menace : Conrad and late Victorian masculinity / Tim Middleton -- Girl! What? Did I mention a girl? : the economy of desire in Heart of darkness / Richard J. Ruppel -- Homoerotic heroics, domestic discipline: Conrad and Ford's romance / Sarah Cole -- Only cathect : queer heirs and narrative desires in Howards End / Lois Cucullu -- Unarm, Eros! : adventure, homoeroticism, and divine order in Prester John / Maria Davidis -- Many lips will I kiss : the queer foreplay of "the east" in Russian aestheticism / Dennis Denisoff -- Sex/race wars on the



frontier : homosexuality and colonialism in The golden notebook / Joseph A. Boone -- Coda : rethinking colonial discourse analysis and queer studies / Philip Holden.

Sommario/riassunto

An exploration of the intersection of colonialism and homosexuality in fiction and travel writing, this volume brings together two dynamic fields of academic inquiry: colonial discourse analysis and queer theory.