LEADER 04338nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910809232403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6264-9 010 $a0-8014-6263-0 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801462634 035 $a(CKB)2550000000064294 035 $a(OCoLC)764348728 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10511639 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000541765 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11357074 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541765 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10499082 035 $a(PQKB)10363818 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001499145 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138268 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28724 035 $a(DE-B1597)478690 035 $a(OCoLC)875227281 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801462634 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138268 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10511639 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL767979 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000064294 100 $a20110303d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTaming cannibals$b[electronic resource] $erace and the Victorians /$fPatrick Brantlinger 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-5017-3089-4 311 $a0-8014-5019-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Race and the Victorians --$tPart I. Two Island Stories --$t1. Missionaries and Cannibals in Nineteenth-Century Fiji --$t2. King Billy's Bones: The Last Tasmanians --$tPart II. Racial Alternatives --$t3. Going Native in Nineteenth-Century History and Literature --$t4. "God Works by Races": Benjamin Disraeli's Caucasian Arabian Hebrew Tent --$tPart III. The 1860's: The Decade after Darwin's Origin --$t5. Race and Class in the 1860's --$t6. The Unbearable Lightness of Being Irish --$tPart IV. Ancient and Future Races --$t7. Mummy Love: H. Rider Haggard and Racial Archaeology --$t8. "Shadows of the Coming Race" --$tEpilogue: Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" and Its Afterlives --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aIn Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only approximate, yet the "civilizing mission" was viewed as the ultimate justification for imperialism. Similarly, the supposedly unshakeable certainty of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority was routinely undercut by widespread fears about racial degeneration through contact with "lesser" races or concerns that Anglo-Saxons might be superseded by something superior-an even "fitter" or "higher" race or species. Brantlinger traces the development of those fears through close readings of a wide range of texts-including Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Fiji and the Fijians by Thomas Williams, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians by James Bonwick, The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold, She by H. Rider Haggard, and The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Throughout the wide-ranging, capacious, and rich Taming Cannibals, Brantlinger combines the study of literature with sociopolitical history and postcolonial theory in novel ways. 606 $aCannibalism in literature 606 $aCannibalism$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRace in literature 606 $aRacism in literature 607 $aGreat Britain$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aCannibalism in literature. 615 0$aCannibalism$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRace in literature. 615 0$aRacism in literature. 676 $a305.800941 700 $aBrantlinger$b Patrick$f1941-$0545092 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809232403321 996 $aTaming cannibals$93942519 997 $aUNINA