Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period: Colonialism and the Politics of Performance

Angelia Poon

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Contents: Introduction English homebodies: the politics of spectacle and domesticity in mid-century Victorian conduct literature and Jane Eyre Comic acts of (be)longing: performing Englishness in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands Seeing double: performing English identity and imperial duty in Emily Eden's Up the Country and Harriet Martineau's British Rule in India Charles Dickens and the policing of the English body Imperial fantasies and the politics of reproducing Englishness: Henry Rider Haggard's Allan Quartermain Epilogue Works cited Index.

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