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Taming cannibals : race and the Victorians /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brantlinger, Patrick, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Cannibalism in literature.
Race in literature.
Racism in literature.
Cannibalism > History > 19th century.
Race relations > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Missionaries and cannibals in nineteenth-century Fiji
  • King Billy's bones : the last Tasmanians
  • Going native in nineteenth-century history and literature
  • "God works by races" : Benjamin Disraeli's Caucasian Arabian Hebrew tent
  • Race and class in the 1860s
  • The unbearable lightness of being Irish
  • Mummy love : H. Rider Haggard and racial archaeology
  • Shadows of the coming race
  • Epilogue : Kipling's The white man's burden and its afterlives.