Imperial Middlebrow

Christoph Ehland is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn (Germany). He has published on Scottish writing, writer’s biographies and cultural conceptions of space and mobility from the early modern period to the present.He is co-editor of Middlebrow and Gender: 1890-1945 (Brill, 2016).Jana Gohrisch is Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at Leibniz University Hannover (Germany). She has published two monographs, one on Black British literature and one on 19th-century British emotion cultures, and co-edited collections, including Postcolonial Studies Across the Disciplines (Brill, 2013).

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Cross-colonial Encounters and Expressions of Power in Middlebrow Literature and Culture, 1890–1940 and the PresentChristoph Ehland and Jana GohrischA Girl’s Own Empire? Imperialism and the Girl’s Own Paper, 1880 to 1903Jochen PetzoldPicturing Africa: Illustration in the Allan Quatermain Adventure Fictions of H. Rider HaggardKate Holterhoff“Cramful of snakes and ghosts”: B.M. Croker’s Anglo-Indian Ghost StoriesChristoph Singer“An artificial little community which has climbed eight thousand feet out of the world to be cool”: Sara Jeanette Duncan, Simla, and Middlebrow AestheticsSamuel CaddickImagining the British West Indies in Middlebrow FictionJana Gohrisch“Intimacies of complicity and critique”: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Victoria Cross’s Imperial FictionCornelia WächterCross-colonial Encounters and Cultural Contestation in Somerset Maugham’s “Rain”Victoria KuttainenRevising the Romance: Depictions of Biracial Women and Mixed Marriage in Anglo-Indian Popular FictionMelissa Edmundson“A small seasoning of curry-powder” in A.J. Cronin’s Hatter’s CastleRobert WirthSidelining Racism and Discrimination – Recent British Black and Asian FictionGesa StedmanMiddlebrow 2.0: The Digital Affect and the New Nigerian NovelHannah PardeyIndex