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IMPERIALISM, * - Coggle Diagram
IMPERIALISM
(R) CONTEXT
Racism in the Victorian Era
- concerns surrounding the purity of race and miscegenation (cross-racial contamination)
- a lot of this concern was founded in the growth and misapplication of the biological sciences
- revived by the Indian Mutiny (1857) and Morant Bay rebellion (1865)
- English became very isolated in the sense that they racialized everyone and everything devoid of Anglo-Saxon "ideal"
Ireland
writer, Charles Kingsley referred to the Irish as "white chimpanzees" - Irish and black races were frequently simianized
Slavery was abolished in the British colonies in 1833-1834 (Slavery was a political issue in which Rossetti took a particular interest)
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(W) CONTEXT
General
Ireland
- Catholic Emancipation Edict (1829)
- Ireland treated and governed as though a British colony
- "Young Ireland" movement of the 1840s failed and so the movement was temporarily silenced
- Irish Nationalism was an affront to British Imperialism
- Irish Home Rule Bill of 1886 was defeated
- Hostility towards the Irish intensified in Britain in the 1870s and 1880s when Irish MPs used obstructionist tactics to draw attention towards the Home Rule
Personal
- Irish born
- Mother was an inspiring Irish nationalist who's poems had been inspirational during the Young Ireland campaigm
Asserted that England was "the most deeply occupied of the British colonies." (Our own absolutism and our desire to uphold this civilised, English ideal comes at the cost of our own liberty)
(W) AN IDEAL HUSBAND
DIRECT ALLUSION TO CONTEXTUAL MATTERS:
- (MC) "If one could only teach the English how to talk and the Irish how to listen. society here would be quite civilised."
OTHER CONTEXTUAL REFERENCES:
Institution of marriage, higher education of women and women’s liberation, philanthropy, The Yellow Book, national relations with Ireland, Panama and Suez Canal schemes (LINK: Wilde's direct and forthright criticism of modern affairs is juxtoposed by the figurative suggestions Rossetti makes. (e.g, covert allusion to the opium epidemic of the 1800s in Goblin Market) Demonstrates male privilege of engaging and contributing to contemporary, political discussions through their work.)
CRITICISM OF THE NOTION OF "ENGLISHNESS"
(the "Puritanism" and National superiority which is tied up in that)
- (RC) "You have lived so long abroad, Mrs Cheveley, that you seem unable to realise that you are speaking to an English gentleman." (superiority that race/nationality affords?)
- (Lord Caversham) "Sir Robert Chiltern...most arising of our young statesmen...brilliant orator...unblemished career...well-know integrity of character...represents what is best of English public life."
use of satire and irony to criticise this idealised sense of "Englishness" as it blind's society to the corruption and injustice that pervades it's upstanding establishment. This creates a specticle and scandal on an international scale: Vicomte De Nanjac with his "Anglomania"
"I love reading all your English Newspapers. I find them so amusing."
ALSO A CRITICISM OF ENGLND'S GUIDING PRINCIPLES: CAPITALISM
- (MC) "The English think that a cheque-book can solve every problem in life."
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