Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy Professor of English and Victorian Studies (Emeritus) at Indiana University. He is the author or editor of 13 books including Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1900 (Cornell University Press, 1988), Dark Vanishings: Nineteenth-Century Discourse about the Extinction of Primitive Races (Cornell University Press, 2003), and The Blackwell Companion to the Victorian Novel (Blackwell Publishers, 2002), edited with William Thesing.

With clarity and economy, a broad vista of political, socio-cultural and geographical factors are viewed, combining perspectives on the imperial source material with the critiques offered by postcolonial reassessments – aesthetic and ethical. Brantlinger's longstanding scholarly expertise in this area is adroitly condensed into a mere 180 pages ... this concise yet considerable scope is the work's strength and should see it become a necessary guide to an almost unmanageably complex area.

• Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Timeline; Exploring the Terrain: Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Imperialism; Slavery and Empire in Romantic and Early Victorian Literature; The Empire Cleans Up Its Act; Emigration Narratives; Thrilling Adventures; Race and Character; Imperial Gothic; Debates: Imperial Historiography, Marxism, and Postcolonialism; Gender, Sexuality, and Race; Orientalism(s); 'Mimicry' versus 'Going Native'; Can Subalterns Speak?; Case Studies: Homecomings; Tennyson, Yeats, and Celticism; Oriental Desires and Imperial Boys: Romancing India; Imperial Boys: Romancing Africa; Coda; Primary Sources; Works Cited; Secondary Sources; Further Reading

Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy Professor of English and Victorian Studies (Emeritus) at Indiana University. He is the author or editor of 13 books including Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1900 (Cornell University Press, 1988), Dark Vanishings: Nineteenth-Century Discourse about the Extinction of Primitive Races (Cornell University Press, 2003), and The Blackwell Companion to the Victorian Novel (Blackwell Publishers, 2002), edited with William Thesing.

With clarity and economy, a broad vista of political, socio-cultural and geographical factors are viewed, combining perspectives on the imperial source material with the critiques offered by postcolonial reassessments – aesthetic and ethical. Brantlinger's longstanding scholarly expertise in this area is adroitly condensed into a mere 180 pages ... this concise yet considerable scope is the work's strength and should see it become a necessary guide to an almost unmanageably complex area.

• Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Timeline; Exploring the Terrain: Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Imperialism; Slavery and Empire in Romantic and Early Victorian Literature; The Empire Cleans Up Its Act; Emigration Narratives; Thrilling Adventures; Race and Character; Imperial Gothic; Debates: Imperial Historiography, Marxism, and Postcolonialism; Gender, Sexuality, and Race; Orientalism(s); 'Mimicry' versus 'Going Native'; Can Subalterns Speak?; Case Studies: Homecomings; Tennyson, Yeats, and Celticism; Oriental Desires and Imperial Boys: Romancing India; Imperial Boys: Romancing Africa; Coda; Primary Sources; Works Cited; Secondary Sources; Further Reading

Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy Professor of English and Victorian Studies (Emeritus) at Indiana University. He is the author or editor of 13 books including Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1900 (Cornell University Press, 1988), Dark Vanishings: Nineteenth-Century Discourse about the Extinction of Primitive Races (Cornell University Press, 2003), and The Blackwell Companion to the Victorian Novel (Blackwell Publishers, 2002), edited with William Thesing.

With clarity and economy, a broad vista of political, socio-cultural and geographical factors are viewed, combining perspectives on the imperial source material with the critiques offered by postcolonial reassessments – aesthetic and ethical. Brantlinger's longstanding scholarly expertise in this area is adroitly condensed into a mere 180 pages ... this concise yet considerable scope is the work's strength and should see it become a necessary guide to an almost unmanageably complex area.

• Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Timeline; Exploring the Terrain: Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Imperialism; Slavery and Empire in Romantic and Early Victorian Literature; The Empire Cleans Up Its Act; Emigration Narratives; Thrilling Adventures; Race and Character; Imperial Gothic; Debates: Imperial Historiography, Marxism, and Postcolonialism; Gender, Sexuality, and Race; Orientalism(s); 'Mimicry' versus 'Going Native'; Can Subalterns Speak?; Case Studies: Homecomings; Tennyson, Yeats, and Celticism; Oriental Desires and Imperial Boys: Romancing India; Imperial Boys: Romancing Africa; Coda; Primary Sources; Works Cited; Secondary Sources; Further Reading