The Imperial Experience: From Carlyle to Forster

by C.C. Eldridge

Overview

This book examines attitudes towards empire and the creation and perpetuation of a British world-view during the years 1834-1924. Besides focusing on the usual Victorian and Edwardian novelists and poets, surveys of popular culture and anti-empire views are also included. By adopting a longer chronological context, the high level of continuity in beliefs and actions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is highlighted. As a result, the period is viewed as a dramatic episode in a much longer story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333437766
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/02/1996
Series:	Context and Commentary , #2
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.55(d)

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface
Author's Preface
List of Plates
Introduction
The Revival of the Imperial Spirit
The Imperial Adventure By Jingo!
The Imperial Idea
The White Man's Burden
A Question of Race?
'Too Late'
Chronological Table
A Guide to Reading
Index