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Analyzes why imperial literature produced in Britain between 1840 and 1914 was influential in creating a rose-colored view of the empire.

Table of Contents

Preface The Dreamweavers: An Empire of the Imagination World Pictures: Travellers and Explorers World Pictures: The Fiction Writers John Buchan and the Imperial Colloquium Settling the Ends of the Earth All That Glitters: Just Rewards Humanity's Burden Christianity, Faith, and the Imperial Adventure Facing Death Heroes and Imperialists Conclusion: The Rose-Colored Vision Imperial Postscript Index

About the Author

LAURENCE KITZAN is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Saskatchewan, where he lectures on British and British Imperial History. He has published in the area of Christian missions to India and China and on the First Burmese War.

Reviews

.,."Kitzan has drawn on memory and deployed his considerable scholarship to assess the allure of imperially-minded literature. In this perceptive, well-researched, gracefully-written book, he explains why the images were so compelling and why they lingered on after the Empire was over."-Canadian Journal of History

?...Kitzan has drawn on memory and deployed his considerable scholarship to assess the allure of imperially-minded literature. In this perceptive, well-researched, gracefully-written book, he explains why the images were so compelling and why they lingered on after the Empire was over.?-Canadian Journal of History

..."Kitzan has drawn on memory and deployed his considerable scholarship to assess the allure of imperially-minded literature. In this perceptive, well-researched, gracefully-written book, he explains why the images were so compelling and why they lingered on after the Empire was over."-Canadian Journal of History