Rule Britannia

by Deirdre David

Book Overview

Deirdre David here explores women's role in the literature of the colonial and imperial British nation, both as writers and as subjects of representation.

David's inquiry juxtaposes the parliamentary speeches of Thomas Macaulay and the private letters of Emily Eden, a trial in Calcutta and the missionary literature of Victorian women, writing about thuggee and emigration to Australia. David shows how, in these texts and in novels such as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801482771
• ISBN13: 9780801482779
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher