Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period

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 ...