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Global Victorians
Appropriation and Empire
Slave Narratives
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" (1847)
John Oldfield, “Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery in Britain”
Mimicry
Mary Seacole, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Mrs. Seacole employs mimcry in order to convince her British audience to support her amidst her bankrupcy.
Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince
Simon Gikandi, from Maps of Englishness
Angela Poon, "Comic Acts of (Be)Longing"
Carolyn Betensky, “Casual Racism in Victorian Literature”
Manu Chander, from Brown Romantics
The use of mimcry was an important tool to combat the omnipresence of the British Imperalist voice and the general trend of drowning out voices deemed "other".
All these texts are examples of how appropriation has been used in order to gain social capital within society. By taking on these different voices, they are gaining social currency and a new audience of readership which might be able to benefit them.
Alternative Authenticity
Ryan Fong, “The Stories Outside the African Farm: Indigeneity, Orality, and Unsettling the Victorian”
Laurie Penny, “Tea, Biscuits, and Empire: The Long Con of Britishness”
Melissa Valiska Gregory, “Race and the Dramatic Monologue”
Education and Empire
Alternative Education
Sōseki Natsume, “The Tower of London” (1905)
T.N. Mukharji, from A Visit to Europe (1889)
Naomi Charlotte Fukuzawa, “Autoexotic Literary Encounters between Meiji Japan and the West”
These texts represent the narratives which have often been side-stepped in the teaching of Empire. They offer a different perspective than that of Kipling and his contemporaries. These narratives are an alternative education for those looking to read beyond the master narrative.
Propoganda
Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince
William Howard Russell, from My Diary in India, In the Year 1858-9” (1860)
Propaganda was used to provide English people with a representation of the colonies that would assuage white fear. These two texts remain in support of English imperialism abroad while advocating for a few changes. Despite these critiques, the texts remain largely in support of Empire.
Antoinette Burton, “The Politics of Recovery: Historicizing Imperial Feminism, 1865- 1915”
“The Victorian Age”
Laura Brace, “The Fallacies of Hope: Contesting Narratives of Abolition in Turner’s The Slave Ship
Joseph Bristow, “Introduction” to Story of an African Farm
The reason for the creation of this section is to emphasize the role of education in building an empire. Education however can be yielded to rightfully inform the public, or it can be used as propaganda and as a means to disseminate false narratives to support a particular agenda.
Sexuality and Empire
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, “Sultana’s Dream” (1905)
Toru Dutt, “Baugmaree,” “The Lotus,” “Our Casuarina Tree”
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Gender
Rudyard Kipling, biographical headnote, “Recessional” (1897), “The White Man’s Burden” (1899), “If” (1895)
Oliver Schreiner, Story of an African Farm
Melissa Shaub, “The Margins of the Dramatic Monologue”
Deviant Sexuality
Carolyn Burdett, “Post Darwin: Social Darwinism, Degeneration, Eugenics”
The deviant expressions of gender and sexuality exhibited within texts from this semester fueled the eugenics movement inspired by Darwin and his texts on evolution. It was a movement fueled by bigotry, racism, sexism, and ableism that "bothered" any kind of discernable difference
Paranoia and Empire
John Ruskin, “The Slave Ship” (1843)
Aviva Briefel, “On the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition”
Kipling, “The Man Who Would Be King” (1888)
Richard Marsh, The Beetle
These texts are largely in response to the paranoia permeating British culture about their possible loss of an empire and the loosening of England's global grasp.
“A Walk Round the ‘Colonies’: A Show and a Revelation” (report on the Indian and Colonial Exhibition from the Pall Mall Gazette, 1886)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen” (1886)
Nathan Hensley, “Empire”
Christopher Herbert, “Introduction” to War of No Pity
Lafcadio Hearn, selections from Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904)
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