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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Elleke Boehmer |
| ISBN: | 0192832654 9780192832658 |
| OCLC Number: | 38355510 |
| Description: | lvi, 507 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword. from The competition wallah. An Indian railway ; The gulf between us / George Otto Trevelyan. Early decades. Conclusion to inaugural lecture / John Ruskin -- Aboriginals / Anthony Trollope -- Civilian memoirs / John Beames -- The meeting with Stanley / David Livingstone -- The meeting with Livingstone / Henry Morton Stanley -- from Preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon's Poems / Marcus Clarke -- From the Clyde to Braidwood / 'Australie' (Emily Manning) -- from The light of Asia / Edwin Arnold -- The defence of Lucknow ; Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- from The aims and methods of a liberal education for Africans / Edward Wilmot Blyden -- from Ancient ballads and legends of Hindustan. À mon père ; Sonnet : Baugmaree ; Sonnet : the lotus ; Our casuarina tree / Toru Dutt -- from The expansion of England / John Seeley -- Letter from Sungei Ujong, Malay Peninsula / Isabella Bird -- The legend of Solomon's mines / H. Rider Haggard -- Colonials and literature / Sara Jeannette Duncan -- His chance in life ; Christmas in India ; Giffen's debt ; Mandalay ; What the people said / Rudyard Kipling -- 1887 / A.E. Housman -- from The English in the West Indies / J.A. Froude -- from Froudacity / J.J. Thomas -- The duties of the mistress ; Bopolûchi ; In the permanent way / Flora Annie Steel -- A pipe of mystery / G.A. Henty. 1880s and 1890s Canadian poetry. War ; Said the canoe / Isabella Valancy Crawford -- Low tide on Grand Pré ; A vagabond song / Bliss Carman -- The pea-fields ; My trees / Charles G.D. Roberts -- Late November ; Among the orchards / Archibald Lampman -- The Onondaga madonna / Duncan Campbell Scott. The bulletin writers of the 1890s. Clancy of the overflow ; The travelling post office ; Old Australian ways / A.B. ('Banjo') Paterson -- The drover's wife / Henry Lawson -- The tramp / Barbara Baynton -- from Introductory to The bulletin story book / A.G. Stephens. Fin de siècle. from The ideal of a universal religion / Swami Vivekananda -- The king of Apemama : the royal trader / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Up country / Hugh Clifford -- The true conception of empire / Joseph Chamberlain -- from Trooper Halket of Mashonaland / Olive Schreiner -- Black ghosts / Mary Kingsley -- An outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad -- Jubilee night in Westmorland / William Watson -- Recessional ; The white man's burden / Rudyard Kipling. The South African War (1899-1902). The Transvaal / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- To arms! / Alfred Austin -- An ABC, for baby patriots / Mrs. Ernest Ames -- Departure ; A Christmas ghost-story ; Drummer Hodge / Thomas Hardy -- from For England's sake. Remonstrance ; Pro rege nostro ; The choice of the will / W.E. Henley -- Grenadier / A.E. Housman -- Vitaï Lampada ; Peace ; April on Waggon Hill ; Sráhmandázi / Henry Newbolt -- from For England. Rome and another ; The inexorable law ; The true imperialism / William Watson -- The lesson / Rudyard Kipling -- The political significance of imperialism / J.A. Hobson. Later decades. Love and death / Cornelia Sorabji -- from Colonial servants / Lady Mary Anne Barker -- from The golden threshold. Village-song ; Humayun to Zobeida ; Ode to H.H. the Nizam of Hyderabad ; To India / Sarojini Naidu -- from The bird of time. Songs of my city ; Song of Radha the milkmaid ; An anthem of love / Sarojini Naidu -- The British empire / George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon -- The object of passive resistance ; Charles Stewart Parnell, 1891 ; Transiit, non periit ; Hymn to the mother : bandemataram ; Revelation ; Rebirth / Sri Aurobindo -- The rise of Ram Din / Alice Perrin -- Ireland at the bar / James Joyce -- from Káshi / Edmund Candler -- Back to the bush / Stephen Leacock -- Pamela / Dorothea Fairbridge -- from Ethiopia unbound. As in a glass darkly ; African nationality / J.E. Casely Hayford -- from Walter Jekyll's Jamaican song and story. Oh General Jackson! ; The other day ; I have a news / Claude McKay -- from Songs of Jamaica. Cudjoe fresh from de lecture ; Old England ; My native land, my home / Claude McKay -- from Constab ballads. The apple-woman's complaint / Claude McKay -- If we must die / Claude McKay -- Poems from Gitanjali (song offerings) / Rabindranath Tagore -- Introduction to Gitanjali / William Butler Yeats -- Pipi on the prowl / B.E. Baughan -- How Pearl Button was kidnapped ; To Stanislaw Wyspianski ; The wind blows / Katherine Mansfield -- One night with the fugitives / Solomon T. Plaatje. Afterword. Pearls and swine / Leonard Woolf -- 'L'Irlanda alla sbarra' : the original Italian text of Joyce's 'Ireland at the bar' / James Joyce. |
| Series Title: | Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) |
| Responsibility: | edited with an introduction and notes by Elleke Boehmer. |
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Abstract:
This anthology gathers together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in English, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from the phase of British expansionist imperialism known as high empire.
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- Commonwealth countries -- Literary collections.
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Literary collections.
- Commonwealth literature (English)
- Imperialism -- Literary collections.
- English literature -- 19th century.
- English literature -- 20th century.
- Koloniale literatuur.
- Commonwealth.
- Anthologie.
- Literatur.
- Englisch.
