Author

Publication

2007 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

64,500 words, Guess

Page Count

258 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2006008917
  • LibraryThing3637142
  • Goodreads1275970

Classifications

  • LCCPR878.M367 K83 2007

Description

"In Imperial Masochism, John Kucich reveals the central role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. Placing the colonial writers Robert Louis Stevenson, Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad in their cultural context, Kucich shows how the ideological and psychological dynamics of empire, particularly its reorganization of class identities at the colonial periphery, depended on figurations of masochism." "The first full-length study of masochism in British colonial fiction, Imperial Masochism puts forth new readings of this literature and shows the continued relevance of psychoanalysis to historicist studies of literature and culture."--BOOK JACKET

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Other Editions

  • Imperial masochism: British fiction, fantasy, and social classPrinceton University Press2007-01-01

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