Writing the Urban Jungle: Reading Empire in London from Doyle to Eliot

by Joseph McLaughlin

Book Overview

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, Writing the Urban Jungle offers an account of the cultural confusion caused by bringing the foreign home. Narrative, plots, and language formerly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081391972X
• ISBN13: 9780813919720
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher