Imperium of the soul
The political and aesthetic imagination of Edwardian imperialists
By Norman Etherington
Book Information
- Format: eBook
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-0608-7
- Published Date: February 2017
- Series: Studies in Imperialism
Description
Contents
Introduction
1. Rider Haggard, imperialism and the layered personality
2. Love and loathing: Rudyard Kipling's India
3. How Herbert Baker created an architecture of imperial power
4. Joseph Conrad: Kipling's secret sharer
5. Elgar and the Gordon Symphony
6. John Buchan and the loathly opposite
7. Lawrence of Arabia: great white hope of the Edwardian imperial romancers
Epilogue: The death-knell of the imperial romance and imperial rule
Index
Author
Norman Etherington is Professor Emeritus of Imperial and Commonwealth History at the University of Western Australia