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Author Meyer, Susan, 1960-

Title Imperialism at home : race and Victorian women's fiction / Susan Meyer.

Publication Info. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1996.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  823.809 M613I    Check Shelf
Description x, 220 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Reading women writing
Reading women writing.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-212) and index.
Contents "Black" rage and white women : Charlotte Brontë's African tales -- "Indian ink" : colonialism and the figurative strategy of Jane Eyre -- "Your father was emperor of China, and your mother an Indian queen" : reverse imperialism in Wuthering Heights -- "The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life" : the cost of history's progress in The mill on the floss -- "Safely to their own borders" : proto-Zionism, feminism, and nationalism in Daniel Deronda.
Subject Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848. Wuthering Heights.
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Political and social views.
Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Political and social views.
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Political fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature.
Race.
Indexed Term English literature Special subjects Race relations
ISBN 0801431328 alkaline paper
0801482550 alkaline paper
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