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Imperial Media : Colonial Networks and Information Technologies in the British Literary Imagination, 1857–1918 / by Worth, Aaron

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Imperial cybernetics -- Imperial projections -- Imperial transmissions -- Imperial informatics -- Coda. …”
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Imperial Muslims : Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937 / by Reese, Scott Steven

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Detecting the Nation : Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture / by Reitz, Caroline

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : imperial detection -- Bad cop/good cop : Godwin, Mill, and the imperial origins of the English detective -- Thuggee and the "discovery" of the English detective -- Making an English virtue of necessity : Dickens and Collins bring it home -- Separated at birth : Doyle, Kipling, and the partition of English detective fiction -- Conclusion.…”
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Deciphering Race : White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose / by Callanan, Laura

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Imagined Homelands : British Poetry in the Colonies / by Rudy, Jason R., 1975-

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Scotland, Britain, Empire : Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 / by McNeil, Kenneth

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The Novel and the Menagerie : Totality, Englishness, and Empire / by Koenigsberger, Kurt

Table of Contents: “…The novel as zoo: animal stories and English style -- Picturing Britannia's menagerie: the aesthetics of the imperial whole -- Circuses in cabinets: the Victorian novelist as beast tamer -- Elephants in the labyrinth of empire: Arnold Bennett, modernism, and the menagerie -- Monsters on the verandah of realism: Virginia Woolf's empire exhibition -- The "Anglepoised" novel after empire: English creatures and postcolonial exhibition -- Small islands, frozen arks.…”
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The New Woman and the Empire / by Jusová, Iveta, 1966-

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The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel : Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries / by Andres, Sophia, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The pre-Raphaelites and the Victorian novel -- Elizabeth Gaskell's resistance to pre-Raphaelite gendered silence -- Wilkie Collins's reconfigurations of pre-Raphaelite gendered shadows -- George Eliot's pre-Raphaelite gendered imperialism -- Beyond gender boundaries : Edward Burne-Jones and Thomas Hardy.…”
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Effeminism : The Economy of Colonial Desire / by Krishnaswamy, Revathi, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Reading colonial erotics -- The economy of colonial desire -- Manufacturing masculinity -- Imperial feminism in an age of homosocial colonialism : Flora Annie Steel's On the face of the waters -- Cartographies of homosocial terror : Kipling's gothic tales and Kim -- A grammar of colonial desire : E.M. …”
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Revising the Clinic : Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel / by Kennedy, Meegan, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Curious observations, curious sights: the eighteenth-century case history -- Staging clinical realism in the Victorian periodical -- The sentimental eye in Dickens and Gaskell -- George Eliot's realist vision: mechanical observation and the production of sympathy -- Speculation and insight: experimental medicine and the expansion of realism -- Mapping an unnavigable river: Freud, Rider Haggard, and the imperial romance.…”
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Victorian Freaks : The Social Context of Freaking in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Huff -- White wings and six-legged muttons : the freakish animal / Timothy Neil -- "Poor Hoo Loo" : sentiment, stoicism, and the grotesque in British imperial medicine / Meegan Kennedy -- Elephant talk : language and enfranchisement in the Merrick case / Christine C. …”
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New Countries : Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750–1870 / by Tutino, John, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The Americas in the rise of industrial capitalism / John Tutino -- The Cádiz liberal revolution and Spanish American independence / Roberto Breña -- Union, capitalism, and slavery in the "rising empire" of the United States / Adam Rothman -- From slave colony to Black nation : Haiti's revolutionary inversion / Carolyn Fick -- Cuban counterpoint : colonialism and continuity in the Atlantic world / David Sartorius -- Atlantic transformations and Brazil's imperial independence / Kirsten Schultz -- Becoming Mexico : the conflictive search for a North American nation / Alfredo Ávila and John Tutino -- The republic of Guatemala : stitching together a new country / Jordana Dym -- From one patria, two nations in the Andean heartland / Sarah C. …”
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Other Mothers : Beyond the Maternal Ideal /

Table of Contents: “…Mcmahon -- Conceiving the nation: visions and versions of colonial prenatality / Deirdre Osborne -- Orphan stories and maternal legacies in Charlotte Brontë / Mary Jean Corbett -- Distance mothering and the "Cradle lands": imperial motherhood and Lady Duff Gordon's Letters from Egypt / Cara Murray -- The text as child: gender/sex and metaphors of maternity at the Fin de siecle / Brenda R. …”
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Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law / by Harris, Sharon M.

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Colonizing Russia’s Promised Land : Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe / by Friesen, Aileen, 1980-

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Ever Faithful : Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba / by Sartorius, David A.

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Traveling Economies : American Women's Travel Writing / by Steadman, Jennifer Bernhardt, 1971-

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