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Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2007. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book Widely read in the age of British imperialism and still popular today, the five writers studied here have allowed millions to participate vicariously in the imperial project. Yet all of these writers, so instrumental in popularising the imperial agenda of power and dominance, bore deep emotional scars and as adults bolstered their fragile psychic states through fantasies of empire. While soldiers and politicians may know to bury or at least camouflage their fears and desires, inner fantasy is the necessary ingredient of literature, and popular fiction often offers the opportunity to probe the mind of an age. The connection between childhood loss and the desire for imperial escape, power and dominance is illuminated by De Quincey's mad screeds against the Chinese as both terrifyingly powerful and laughably weak, while Stevenson's…
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Narcissism of Empire: Loss, Rage and Revenge in the Works of Thomas de Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling Tapa dura - 2007
de Diane Simmons
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- Título Narcissism of Empire: Loss, Rage and Revenge in the Works of Thomas de Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling
- Autor Diane Simmons
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 148
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Liverpool University Press, Brighton
- Fecha de publicación January 2007
- Ilustrado Sí
- ISBN 9781845191566 / 1845191560
- Peso 0.81 libras (0.37 kg)
- Dimensiones 9 x 6 x 0.6 pulgadas (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm)
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2006014015
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.809
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The Narcissism of Empire : Loss, Rage and Revenge in the Novels of Thomas de Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Isak Dinesen
de Simmons, Diane
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Narcissism of Empire: Loss, Rage and Revenge in the Works of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Isak Dinesen
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Hardback. New. Studies the five writers widely read in the age of British imperialism. These writers bore emotional scars and as adults bolstered their fragile psychic states through fantasies of empire. It is said that, "Love's loss is empire's gain", and for these writers, this work shows, empire presented an opportunity to compensate for childhood calamity.
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Narcissism Of Empire: Loss, Rage And Revenge In The Works Of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling And Isak Dinesen
de Simmons, Diane
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Sussex Academic Pr, 2007. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 148 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.50 inches.
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