Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period

Colonialism and the Politics of Performance

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
Cover of the book Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period by Angelia Poon, Taylor and Francis
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Angelia Poon ISBN: 9781351940368
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: March 2, 2017
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Angelia Poon
ISBN: 9781351940368
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: March 2, 2017
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

Angelia Poon examines how British colonial authority in the nineteenth century was predicated on its being rendered in ways that were recognizably 'English'. Reading a range of texts by authors that include Charlotte Brontë, Mary Seacole, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, and H. Rider Haggard, Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period focuses on the strategies - narrative, illustrative, and rhetorical - used to perform English subjectivity during the time of the British Empire. Characterising these performances, which ranged from the playful, ironic, and fantastical to the morally serious and determinedly didactic, was an emphasis on the corporeal body as not only gendered, racialised, and classed, but as (in)visible, desiring, bound in particular ways to space, and marked by certain physical stylizations and ways of thinking. As she shines a light on the English subject in the act of being and becoming, Poon casts new light on the changing historical circumstances and discontinuities in the performances of Englishness to disclose both the normative power of colonial authority as well as the possibilities for resistance.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Angelia Poon examines how British colonial authority in the nineteenth century was predicated on its being rendered in ways that were recognizably 'English'. Reading a range of texts by authors that include Charlotte Brontë, Mary Seacole, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, and H. Rider Haggard, Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period focuses on the strategies - narrative, illustrative, and rhetorical - used to perform English subjectivity during the time of the British Empire. Characterising these performances, which ranged from the playful, ironic, and fantastical to the morally serious and determinedly didactic, was an emphasis on the corporeal body as not only gendered, racialised, and classed, but as (in)visible, desiring, bound in particular ways to space, and marked by certain physical stylizations and ways of thinking. As she shines a light on the English subject in the act of being and becoming, Poon casts new light on the changing historical circumstances and discontinuities in the performances of Englishness to disclose both the normative power of colonial authority as well as the possibilities for resistance.

More books from Taylor and Francis

Cover of the book How Designers Think by Angelia Poon
Cover of the book Migration Across Boundaries by Angelia Poon
Cover of the book Postcolonial Fiction and Sacred Scripture by Angelia Poon
Cover of the book Rethinking Greenland and the Arctic in the Era of Climate Change by Angelia Poon
Cover of the book Accounting for Biological Assets by Angelia Poon
Cover of the book Helping Survivors of Authoritarian Parents, Siblings, and Partners by Angelia Poon
Cover of the book Deciphering the Enterprise Culture (Routledge Revivals) by Angelia Poon
Cover of the book Spotlight on Reading by Angelia Poon
Cover of the book Kinship and the Social Order. by Angelia Poon
Cover of the book The Routledge Handbook of Applied Epistemology by Angelia Poon
Cover of the book On Dialogue by Angelia Poon
Cover of the book Understanding and Changing Health Behaviour by Angelia Poon
Cover of the book Visions of the City by Angelia Poon
Cover of the book The Future of Psychological Therapy by Angelia Poon
Cover of the book The Politics of NGOs in Indonesia by Angelia Poon
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy