Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period
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Allan Quatermain
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British Empire history
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Colonial Administration
Conduct Literature
Crimean Heroine
cultural subjectivity
Dead Men
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Eden's Letters
Eden’s Letters
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Emily Eden
English Body
English Masculinity
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Florence Nightingale
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gender and race theory
Gretchen Gerzina
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identity performance
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Imperial Duty
Imperial Romance
Indian Rebellion
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King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon’s Mines
Mary Seacole
Mr Podsnap
Mrs Seacole
nineteenth-century English identity politics
postcolonial studies
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Victorian literature
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Wonderful Adventures
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- ISBN 9780754658481
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Angelia Poon examines how British colonial authority in the nineteenth century was predicated on its being rendered in ways that were recognizably 'English'. Reading a range of texts by authors that include Charlotte Brontë, Mary Seacole, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, and H. Rider Haggard, Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period focuses on the strategies - narrative, illustrative, and rhetorical - used to perform English subjectivity during the time of the British Empire. Characterising these performances, which ranged from the playful, ironic, and fantastical to the morally serious and determinedly didactic, was an emphasis on the corporeal body as not only gendered, racialised, and classed, but as (in)visible, desiring, bound in particular ways to space, and marked by certain physical stylizations and ways of thinking. As she shines a light on the English subject in the act of being and becoming, Poon casts new light on the changing historical circumstances and discontinuities in the performances of Englishness to disclose both the normative power of colonial authority as well as the possibilities for resistance.
Angelia Poon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
