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Writing the Urban Jungle: Reading Empire in London from Doyle to Eliot
Joseph Mclaughlin
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Paperback. Much has been written about the effects of British culture on colonized people, but this study suggests that the influence worked both ways. Focusing on the relationship between literature and metropolitan culture, it discusses the cultural confusion caused by bringing the foreign home. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Much has been written about cultural imperialism and the effects of Britain and British culture on colonized people, but Joseph McLaughlin suggests that the influence worked both ways. Focusing on the relationship between the literature of British imperialism and turn-of-the-century metropolitan culture, this work offers an account of the cultural confusion caused by bringing the foreign home. Narratives, plots and language formerly used to describe the colonies, McLaughlin argues, became ways of reading and writing about life in London, ""that great cesspool into which all loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained"", as Arthur Conan Doyle's Dr Watson ... Read more
Much has been written about cultural imperialism and the effects of Britain and British culture on colonized people, but Joseph McLaughlin suggests that the influence worked both ways. Focusing on the relationship between the literature of British imperialism and turn-of-the-century metropolitan culture, this work offers an account of the cultural confusion caused by bringing the foreign home. Narratives, plots and language formerly used to describe the colonies, McLaughlin argues, became ways of reading and writing about life in London, ""that great cesspool into which all loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained"", as Arthur Conan Doyle's Dr Watson ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813919720
SKU
V9780813919720
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