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- 题名/责任者:
- Imperial emotions : the politics of empathy across the British empire / Jane Lydon.
- 出版发行项:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- ISBN:
- 9781108498364
- ISBN:
- 1108498361
- 载体形态项:
- xiii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- 丛编统一题名:
- Critical perspectives on empire.
- 个人责任者:
- Lydon, Jane, 1965- author.
- 论题主题:
- Empathy-Political aspects-Great Britain.
- 论题主题:
- Indigenous peoples-Oceania-Social conditions.
- 论题主题:
- Empathy in literature.
- 论题主题:
- Imperialism.
- 地理名称主题:
- Great Britain-Colonies-Oceania.
- 地理名称主题:
- Great Britain-Colonies-Social policy.
- 中图法分类号:
- K604
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 内容附注:
- 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'.
- 摘要附注:
- "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"--
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