Rule of darkness : British literature and imperialism, 1830-1914 /

• Brantlinger, Patrick, 1941-

• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
• Imperialism in literature
• Popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

• Cornell University Press,

• 0801497671

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Originally published: 1988.

• book history reader
• Empire boys adventures in a mans world
• Tennyson
• Religion in Victorian Britain Culture and empire
• woman reader 1837 1914
• Victorian literature and the Victorian visual imagination
• Charles Dickens radical moralist
• Victorian Babylon people streets and images in nineteenth century London
• Unstable bodies Victorian representations of sexuality and maternity
• sensation novel from The woman in white to The moonstone
• English common reader a social history of the mass reading public 1800 1900
• English poetry of the Victorian period 1830 1890
• mans place masculinity and the middle class home in Victorian England
• Uneven developments the ideological work of gender in mid Victorian England
• poorhouse fugitives self taught poets and poetry in Victorian Britain
• Nineteenth century Britain
• country and the city
• Private lives public spirit Britain 1870 1914
• Myths of sexuality representations of women in Victorian Britain
• Manful assertions masculinities in Britain since 1800
• Walking the Victorian streets women representation and the city
• nineteenth century the British Isles 1815 1901
• Virginia Woolf
• improper feminine the womens sensation novel and the new woman writing
• new police in nineteenth century England crime conflict and control
• Imagined communities reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism