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Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918 (Oxford World's Classics) [Paperback]

Elleke Boehmer (Editor)

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Publication Date: November 19, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0192832654 | ISBN-13: 978-0192832658

Empire Writing is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from the phase of British expansionist imperialism known as high empire. This wide-ranging selection reveals the diversity of responses to colonial experience, and encompasses some of the empire's key symbols and emblematic moments. Comprehensive notes and full biographies ensure that this is one of the most compelling, readable and academically valuable source books on the period.

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`a remarkable diversity of texts, reflecting the full complexity of colonial literature in the high phase of British imperialism...it is hard to fault Boehmer's choice of texts and the perspicacity of her comments' Essays in Criticism

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Elleke Boehmer is Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds.

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Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (November 19, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0192832654
ISBN-13: 978-0192832658
Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 4.9 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,819,193 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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is on special duty there, and then passing the rest of my leave with my cousin, Tom Goddard, at Mofussilpore. Ratcliffe is a Bengal Club acquaintance, who gave me first a general, and then a most particular invitation to stay with him up country. Read the first page

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