The narcissism of empire : loss, rage, and revenge in Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, and Isak Dinesen /

• Simmons, Diane, 1948-.

• English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Imperialism in literature
• English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
• Narcissism in literature
• Colonies in literature

• Sussex Academic Press,

• 1845191579 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781845191573 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1845191560 (paperback)
• 9781845191566 (paperback)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Loss, Rage and Revenge: The Narcissist's Needs; Thomas De Quincey: Dreams of China; Robert Louis Stevenson: Imperial Escape; Conan Doyle: The Curse of Empire; Rudyard Kipling: Black Sheep; Isak Dinesen: A Passion for Africans; Afterword: WTC, September 11; Indian "Mutiny", 1857 -- Two Studies in the Psychology of Embattled Superpower; Index.

• Victorian education and the ideal of womanhood
• Discourse
• Crime fiction from Poe to the present
• Literature culture and society
• poorhouse fugitives self taught poets and poetry in Victorian Britain
• Uneven developments the ideological work of gender in mid Victorian England
• Colonial discourse postcolonial theory
• Culture and society 1780 1950
• Victorian social problem novel the market the individual and communal life
• Victorian cities
• Gothic
• improper feminine the womens sensation novel and the new woman writing
• madwoman in the attic the woman writer and the nineteenth century literary imagination
• Crime policing and punishment in England 1750 1914
• Modernismpostmodernism