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ISBN/UID: 9780691127125
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 24 December 2006
Description
British imperialism's favorite literary narrative might seem to be conquest. But real British conquests also generated a surprising cultural obsession with suffering, sacrifice, defeat, and melancholia. There was, writes John Kucich, seemingly a d...
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258 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691127125
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 24 December 2006
Description
British imperialism's favorite literary narrative might seem to be conquest. But real British conquests also generated a surprising cultural obsession with suffering, sacrifice, defeat, and melancholia. There was, writes John Kucich, seemingly a d...