Contents: Introduction; Emigration, transportation, and the problem of closure; National identity; The racial order; Red tape and circumlocution: the Crimean War; 'How to make an India pickle'; A tale of three revolutions: Dickens's response to the Sepoy rebellion; Containing Cawnpore: the reinvention and reinterpretation of the Indian Mutiny; The 1860s and the decline of the discourse; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.
Grace Moore is Lecturer in Literary Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia
' ... a thoughtful, well-researched, and clearly written study that provides the first sustained reading of Dickens in the context of 19th-century international and colonial politics. Moore's attention throughout to the interdependence of domestic and international concerns as they affected Dickens's attitudes toward (and fictional treatment of) race and class results in important revisions to received opinion on this important and timely topic.' John Jordan, Professor of English and Director of the Dickens Project, The University of California, Santa Cruz '... a valuable study of Dickens's relationship to questions of race and empire.' John Bowen, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of York 'Moore's mastery of the Dickens canon (few critics have paid such close attention to Dickens's periodicals, Household Words and All the Year Round) enables her to provide cogent illustrations of his evolving attitude toward empire.' Choice '[Dickens's] novels continue to matter, and any discussion of his journalism and correspondence that points us to more open and complex readings of the novels is valuable. No other book has brought together such a wide range of texts showing the extent of Dickens's response to empire. Dickens and Empire is a valuable book.' Clio
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