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Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature, 1870-1918

by Elleke Boehmer

Pages: 520

Contributors: Elleke Boehmer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Place of Publication: Oxford

Publication Year: 1998

Subjects: Commonwealth Literature (English),Imperialism--Literary Collections,English Literature--19th Century,English Literature--20th Century,Commonwealth Countries--Literary Collections,Great Britain--Colonies--Literary Collections

Table of Contents

Title Page

OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS EMPIRE WRITING

OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

NOTE ON THE ANTHOLOGY Principles of Ordering and Selection

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

CHRONOLOGY OF KEY EVENTS

EMPIRE WRITING

FOREWORD

Early Decades

ANTHONY TROLLOPE (1815-1882)

HENRY MORTON STANLEY (1841-1904)

MARCUS CLARKE (1846-1881)

'AUSTRALIE' (EMILY MANNING) (1845-1890)

EDWIN ARNOLD (1832-1904)

ISABELLA BIRD (1831-1904)

H. RIDER HAGGARD (1856-1925)

A. E. HOUSMAN (1859-1936)

J. A. FROUDE (1818-1894)

1880s and 1890s Canadian Poetry

BLISS CARMAN (1861-1929)

The Bulletin Writers of the 1890s

HENRY LAWSON (1867-1922)

BARBARA BAYNTON (1857-1929)

A. G. STEPHENS (1865-1933)

Fin De SiÈcle

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894)

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN (1836-1914)

OLIVE SCHREINER (1855-1920)

MARY KINGSLEY (1862-1900)

RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936)

The South African War (1899-1902)

ALFRED AUSTIN (1835-1913)

W. E. HENLEY (1849-1903)

A. E. HOUSMAN (1859-1936)

WILLIAM WATSON (1858- 1935)

RUDYARD KIPLING (1865- 1936)

J. A. HOBSON (1858- 1940)

Later Decades Cornelia Sorabji (1866- 1954)

LADY MARY ANNE BARKER (1831-1911)

SAROJINI NAIDU (1876-1949)

GEORGE NATHANIEL, MARQUESS CURZON (1859-1925)

SRI AUROBINDO (1872-1950)

STEPHEN LEACOCK (1869-1944)

DOROTHEA FAIRBRIDGE (1862-1931)

J. E. CASELY HAYFORD (1866-1930)

CLAUDE McKAY (1889-1948)

RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1861-1941)

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)

B. E. BAUGHAN (1870-1958)

KATHERINE MANSFIELD (1888-1923)

SOLOMON T. PLAATJE (1876-1932)

AFTERWORD

APPENDIX 'L'Irlanda alla sbarra'

EXPLANATORY NOTES

BIOGRAPHIES

PUBLISHER'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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