The Savage in Literature: Representations of 'primitive' society in English fiction 1858-1920Routledge, 28.07.2016 - 222 Seiten First published in 1975, this study is concerned with the representation of non-European people in English popular fiction in the period from 1858-1920. It examines the developments in thinking about people across the world and shows how they affected writers’ views of evolution, race, heredity and of the life of the so-called ‘primitive’ man. This book will be of interest to those studying 19th century literature. |
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... Kipling and the Critics by E. L. Gilbert. Oxford University Press for permission to quote from In the Power of the Pygmies by Charles Gilson. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, for permission to quote from Theories of Primitive Religion by ...
... Kipling and the Critics by E. L. Gilbert. Oxford University Press for permission to quote from In the Power of the Pygmies by Charles Gilson. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, for permission to quote from Theories of Primitive Religion by ...
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... Kipling. Mrs George Bambridge and Eyre Methuen Ltd for permission to quote from Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling. The Estate of Sir James Frazer for permission to quote from The Gorgon's Head and The Golden Bough by Sir James ...
... Kipling. Mrs George Bambridge and Eyre Methuen Ltd for permission to quote from Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling. The Estate of Sir James Frazer for permission to quote from The Gorgon's Head and The Golden Bough by Sir James ...
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... Kipling: While statesmen grasped the possibilities included in a fact which their conscious will had never contributed to create, and were anxious to strengthen and develop it; while scientists explored it, studied its resources or told ...
... Kipling: While statesmen grasped the possibilities included in a fact which their conscious will had never contributed to create, and were anxious to strengthen and develop it; while scientists explored it, studied its resources or told ...
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... Kipling's Prose, notes that 'Kipling seems to have been intimately acquainted only with the North West'. This, however, is not a criticism and he adds: 'Like any other sensible writer he placed the scene of his stories in the region he ...
... Kipling's Prose, notes that 'Kipling seems to have been intimately acquainted only with the North West'. This, however, is not a criticism and he adds: 'Like any other sensible writer he placed the scene of his stories in the region he ...
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... Kipling by Lang and Maugham, and to Haggard by Cohen, suggests the lines along which such an enquiry might go; and the present study of the assumptions writers shared with their public might throw some light on the impact they ...
... Kipling by Lang and Maugham, and to Haggard by Cohen, suggests the lines along which such an enquiry might go; and the present study of the assumptions writers shared with their public might throw some light on the impact they ...
Inhalt
The English abroad | |
classification scientific | |
hierarchy and racial theory | |
Heredity and environment | |
Notes | |
Primitive politics in popular literature | |
Primitive religion in popular literature | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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The Savage in Literature: Representations of 'primitive' society in English ... Brian V. Street Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2016 |
The Savage in Literature: Representations of "primitive" Society in English ... Brian V. Street Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1975 |
The Savage in Literature: Representations of 'primitive' Society in English ... Brian V. Street Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
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