This is the first anthology to gather 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...
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This is the first anthology to gather 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. A rich and startling diversity of responses to the colonial experience emerges: adventurers, administrators, memsahibs, propagandists and poets intermingle with West Indian and South Africannationalists, Indian mystics, Creole balladeers, women activists and native interpreters. This wide-ranging selection reveals the vivid contrasts and subtle shifts in responses to colonial experience, and embraces some of empire's key symbols and emblematic moments. Cover -- Copyright Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Note on the Anthology -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of Samuel Richardson -- EMPIRE WRITING -- FOREWORD -- GEORGE OTTO TREVELYAN -- An Indian Railway, from The Competition Wallah (1864) -- The Gulf Between Us, from The Competition Wallah (1864) -- EARLY DECADES -- JOHN RUSKIN -- Conclusion to Inaugural Lecture (1870) -- ANTHONY TROLLOPE -- Aboriginals (1873) -- JOHN BEAMES -- Civilian Memoirs (1873) -- DAVID LIVINGSTONE -- The Meeting with Stanley (1874) -- HENRY MORTON STANLEY -- The Meeting with Livingstone (1886) -- MARCUS CLARKE -- from Preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon's Poems (1876) -- 'AUSTRALIE' (EMILY MANNING) -- From the Clyde to Braid wood (1877) -- EDWIN ARNOLD -- from The Light of Asia (1879) -- ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON -- The Defence of Lucknow (1880) -- Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen (1886) -- EDWARD WILMOT BLYDEN -- from The Aims and Methods of a Liberal Education for Africans (1881) -- TORU DUTT -- À mon Père (1876) from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882) -- Sonnet-Baugmaree from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882) -- Sonnet-The Lotus from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882) -- Our Casuarina Tree from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882) -- JOHN SEELEY -- from The Expansion of England (1883) -- ISABELLA BIRD -- Letter from Sungei Ujong, Malay Peninsula (1883) -- H. RIDER HAGGARD -- The Legend of Solomon's Mines (1885) -- SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN -- Colonials and Literature (1886) -- RUDYARD KIPLING -- His Chance in Life (1888) -- Christmas in India (1888) -- Giffen's Debt (1886) -- Mandalay (1892) -- What the People Said (1887) -- A. E. HOUSMAN -- 1887 (1896) -- J. A. FROUDE -- from The English in the West Indies (1888) -- J. J. THOMAS -- from Froudacity (1889).
