Imperial emotions : the politics of empathy across the British empire / Jane Lydon, The University of Western Australia, Perth.
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Lydon, Jane, 1965- (författare)
- ISBN 9781108498364
- Publicerad: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; Cambridge University Press, 2020
- Engelska xiii, 221 pages
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Serie: Critical perspectives on empire
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Sammanfattning
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- Introduction: Emotions and empire -- Children of empire : British nationalism and colonial utopias -- Colonial 'blind spots' : images of frontier conflict -- Australian Uncle Tom's cabins -- The homeless of empire? Imperial outcasts in Bleak house -- Christian heroes on the new frontier -- Charity begins at home? Philanthropy, magic lantern slides and missionary performances -- The republican debate and popular royalism : 'a strange reluctance to actually shout at the Queen'.
- "Over the last decades of the eighteenth century, hopes and ambitions turned to conceptions of the great southern land, and the British nurtured fond plans for the Antipodean colonies of Australia and New Zealand conceived as children of the British Empire, one day to assume a glorious inheritance. Many emotional ties first experienced within the British family were applied to, enlarged, and challenged by the relationships and scope of empire: ideas about inheritance and childhood, for example, shaped utopian views of the colonies, while racial exclusion could be couched in terms of class. From colonization in 1788, the reality of invasion and violence against Indigenous people challenged this imaginary future, prompting mourning and erasure"--
Ämnesord
- Imperialism (sao)
- Kolonier (sao)
- Empathy in literature. (LCSH)
- Imperialism. (LCSH)
- Empathy -- Political aspects -- Great Britain. (LCSH)
- Indigenous peoples -- Oceania -- Social conditions. (LCSH)
- British colonies. (fast)
- Empathy in literature. (fast)
- Imperialism. (fast)
- Race relations. (fast)
- Social policy. (fast)
- Einfühlung (gnd)
- Imperialismus (gnd)
- Indigenes Volk (gnd)
- Kolonie (gnd)
- Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions. (fast)
- Empathie -- Aspect politique -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle. (ram)
- Autochtones -- Colonies britanniques -- 19e siècle. (ram)
- Relations interethniques -- Colonies britanniques -- 19e siècle. (ram)
- Impérialisme -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle. (ram)
- Empati -- politiska aspekter -- historia (sao)
- Empati i litteraturen -- historia (sao)
- Imperialism (LCSH)
- Colonies (LCSH)
- Storbritannien (sao)
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Oceania. (LCSH)
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social policy. (LCSH)
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Race relations. (LCSH)
- Great Britain. (fast)
- Oceania. (fast)
- Großbritannien (gnd)
- Ozeanien (gnd)
- 1800-talet (sao)
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- DU40 (LCC)
- 909/.0971241 (DDC)
- N (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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