Bibliography
Indicative Bibliography
Banerjee, Sukanya. Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire. Durham: Duke UP, 2010.
Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Migrant Metaphors. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005.
BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History, http://www.branchcollective.org/. [A huge collective project with articles on over 100 topics written by top scholars from around the world.]
Bubb, Alexander. Meeting without Knowing It: Kipling and Yeats at the Fin de Siècle. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016.
Buettner, Elizabeth. Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.
Chang, Elizabeth. Britain's Chinese Eye: Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-century Britain. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2010.
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The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. Ed Dino Franco Felluga, Pamela K. Gilbert, and Linda K. Hughes. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
Edmond, Rod. Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gaugin. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005.
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Forman, Ross G. China and the Victorian Imagination: Empires Entwined. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013.
Francis, Andrew. Culture and Commerce in Conrad's Asian Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015.
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You may want to purchase the following texts for 2020/21. Other readings will be available online or through the Talis Aspire(via the Library).HOWEVER, DO NOT ASSUME THAT THE TALIS ASPIRE READING LIST COVERS ALL MATERIALS FOR EACH WEEK.
Many readings are available to download from www.archive.org or Project Gutenberg.
- Elleke Boehmer, Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature, 1870-1918.Available online.
- Philip Meadows Taylor, Confessions of a Thug.
[Available through the Library's database Empire Online. An e-version of the novel also can be downloaded from www.archive.org]* - Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner, The Complete Indian Housekeeper. [Oxford edition recommended. Available from the Library via Empire Online.]
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden.
- Isabella Bird, The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither. [Available online via the Library. For print editions, Stanfords Travel Classics edition recommended.]
- José Rizal, Noli Me Tangere. [Penguin Classics Edition.]*NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE.