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Graham Greene: the dangerous edge; Where art and politics meet
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ISBN: 0333458982 9780333458983 Year: 1990 Publisher: London: MacMillan,


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Joseph Conrad : narrative technique and ideological commitment
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ISBN: 0340577169 Year: 1990 Publisher: London New York Melbourne Edward Arnold

Brave new world, 1984, and WE: an essay on anti-utopia
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ISBN: 0882331388 0882331396 9780882331386 Year: 1984 Volume: 4 Publisher: Ann Arbor (Mich.): Ardis,

Narratives of empire : the fictions of Rudyard Kipling
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ISBN: 0521434254 0521063132 0511519249 0511833830 9780521434256 9780511519246 9780521063135 Year: 1993 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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Writers whose work reflects the experience of empire betray the anxieties and contradictions at the heart of the imperial enterprise. Zohreh T. Sullivan's new reading of Rudyard Kipling's writings about India expands our sense of colonial discourse and recovers the cultural context and recurring tropes in his early journalism and fiction, in Kim, and in his late autobiography. She charts the fragmentation of Kipling's position as child, as colonizer and as "poet of empire," finding in his representation of childhood's loss the site of repressed and disavowed desires and fears that resurface in later work. In using Kipling's troubled intimacy with empire as the link between history and narrative, Sullivan sees in Kipling's ambivalence his negotiation between the desire for union with his golden "best-beloved" India and the historic imperatives of separation from it.

Defoe's politics : parliament, power, kingship, and Robinson Crusoe
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ISBN: 0521384524 0521029023 1139085093 0511519109 Year: 1991 Volume: vol 9 Publisher: Cambridge New York Sydney Cambridge University Press

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This study of Defoe's politics aims to challenge the critical demand to see Defoe as a 'modern' and to counter misrepresentations of his political writings by restoring them to their seventeenth-century context. Offering a full examination of Defoe's years as a political reporter and journalist (1689-1715), it recovers his traditional, conservative and anti-Lockean ideas on contemporary issues: the origins of society, the role of the people in the establishment of a political society and how monarchies are created and maintained as the means of achieving a beneficent political order. At the heart of Defoe's political imagination, Manuel Schonhorn finds the vision of a warrior-king, derived from sources in the Bible and in ancient and English history. This model illuminates his original reading of Defoe's greatest political fiction, Robinson Crusoe, which emerges less in terms of a family romance, a tract for the rising bourgeoisie or a Lockean parable of government, than as a dramatic re-enactment of Defoe's lifelong political preoccupations concerning society, government and kingship.

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