Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period: Colonialism by Angelia Poon

By Angelia Poon

Angelia Poon examines how British colonial authority within the 19th century was once predicated on its being rendered in ways in which have been recognizably 'English'. interpreting quite a number texts through authors that come with Charlotte Brontë, Mary Seacole, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, and H. Rider Haggard, Enacting Englishness within the Victorian interval makes a speciality of the suggestions - narrative, illustrative, and rhetorical - used to accomplish English subjectivity in the course of the time of the British Empire. Characterising those performances, which ranged from the playful, ironic, and fantastical to the morally severe and determinedly didactic, was once an emphasis at the corporeal physique as not just gendered, racialised, and classed, yet as (in)visible, needing, sure specifically how one can house, and marked by means of convinced actual stylizations and methods of pondering. As she shines a gentle at the English topic within the act of being and turning into, Poon casts new gentle at the altering ancient conditions and discontinuities within the performances of Englishness to reveal either the normative energy of colonial authority in addition to the probabilities for resistance.

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