LEADER 04468nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910815048003321 005 20240416115019.0 010 $a0-8014-6702-0 010 $a0-8014-2090-3 010 $a0-8014-6703-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801467035 035 $a(CKB)2550000001038208 035 $a(OCoLC)828738007 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10648924 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000870606 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11526917 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000870606 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10819182 035 $a(PQKB)10659184 035 $a(OCoLC)966938674 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51914 035 $a(DE-B1597)478517 035 $a(OCoLC)979954138 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801467035 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138419 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10648924 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681591 035 $a(OCoLC)922998352 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138419 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001038208 100 $a19870826d1988 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRule of darkness $eBritish literature and imperialism, 1830-1914 /$fPatrick Brantlinger 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d1988 215 $a1 online resource (322 p.) 300 $aFirst printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 1990. 311 $a1-322-50309-5 311 $a0-8014-9767-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical (p. 277-301) and index. 327 $apt. I. Dawn -- pt. II. Noon -- pt. III. Dusk. 330 $aA major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal importance to early and mid-Victorian writers. Patrick Brantlinger asserts that the Empire was central to British culture as a source of ideological and artistic energy, both supported by and lending support to widespread belief in racial superiority, the need to transform "savagery" into "civilization," and the urgency of promoting emigration. Rule of Darkness brings together material from public records, memoirs, popular culture, and canonical literature. Brantlinger explores the influence of the novels of Captain Frederick Marryat, pioneer of British adolescent adventure fiction, and shows the importance of William Makepeace Thackeray's experience of India to his novels. He treats a number of Victorian best sellers previously ignored by literary historians, including the Anglo-Indian writer Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug and Seeta. Brantlinger situates explorers' narratives and travelogues by such famous author-adventurers as David Livingstone and Sir Richard Burton in relation to other forms of Victorian and Edwardian prose. Through readings of works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, John Hobson, and many others, he considers representations of Africa, India, and other non-British parts of the world in both fiction and nonfiction. The most comprehensive study yet of literature and imperialism in the early and mid-Victorian years, Rule of Darkness offers, in addition, a revisionary interpretation of imperialism as a significant factor in later British cultural history, from the 1880's to World War I. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with Victorian culture and society and, more generally, with the relationship between Victorian writers and imperialism, 'and between racist ideology and patterns of domination in modern history. 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aImperialism in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zGreat Britain 606 $aColonies in literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature 615 0$aColonies in literature. 676 $a820/.9/358 700 $aBrantlinger$b Patrick$f1941-$0545092 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815048003321 996 $aRule of darkness$9890168 997 $aUNINA