British Imperial Literature, 1870 1940: Writing and the Administration of Empire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521066587)

This book is a sweeping study of the way British writers used imperial service as a stage for dramatizing new modes of social order and self-consciousness. An expanding administrative machine, Bivona argues, naturalized and domesticated bureaucratic forms of social control, inscribing the ideals of service, submission, discipline, and renunciation in the hearts and minds of the young men employed in administrating the empire. Bivona examines how this governing ideology is treated in Kipling, Conrad, T. E. Lawrence, Forster, Cary and Orwell.

Author: Daniel Bivona
ISBN-10: 0521066581
ISBN-13: 9780521066587
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/19/2008
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d