Add to ORKGThis chapter, in the collection End of Empire and the English novel since 1945, explores the traces of the British Empire in a genre of fiction which appears to have no direct relationship with colonialism: the popular romance novel. As the colonies of the British Empire were becoming the newly independent states and territories of the commonwealth, the fictional construction of Englishness and its place in the world could not be assumed as a secure identity. Popular romance novels of the post war period are replete with what Bhabha has termed the concept of 'fixity'. In the postwar colonial romance there is a recurrent narrative pattern - in which older brothers or fathers are lost, dead or enfeebled in an erstwhile British colony, remnant...
This is the first full-length study of a genre that has had increasing critical attention and popula...
As the British Empire broke up and attempted to sustain an illusion of unity under the euphemistic t...
Empires as political entities may be a thing of the past, but as a concept, empire is alive and kick...
Post-War British Literature and the ‘End of Empire’ examines responses to decolonization in novels b...
On 2 November 2011 contributors to the volume 'End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945', (ed....
This article explores Australian romance fiction from the 1880s to 1930s to contemplate how Australi...
This article examines Anglo-Indian romance novels written by British women during the period of the ...
Going beyond Orientalism in its examination of novels dealing with British colonisation in the West,...
Romance: The Emulation of EmpireThis dissertation offers a symptomatic reading of romance and explor...
The article focuses on the neo-Victorian postcolonial novel and on the late neo-Victorian novel with...
Abstract— The colonial experience, whose effects are still lingering after the end of direct colonia...
The growing debate over British national identity, and the place of Englishness within it, raises ...
Postcolonial theory teaches us that the Empire was as much a textual as a physical undertaking: the...
In my dissertation, I analyze six novels from five British authors, beginning with William Makepeace...
During colonial times, local cultural expression wrestled with the global as represented by the syst...
This is the first full-length study of a genre that has had increasing critical attention and popula...
As the British Empire broke up and attempted to sustain an illusion of unity under the euphemistic t...
Empires as political entities may be a thing of the past, but as a concept, empire is alive and kick...
Post-War British Literature and the ‘End of Empire’ examines responses to decolonization in novels b...
On 2 November 2011 contributors to the volume 'End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945', (ed....
This article explores Australian romance fiction from the 1880s to 1930s to contemplate how Australi...
This article examines Anglo-Indian romance novels written by British women during the period of the ...
Going beyond Orientalism in its examination of novels dealing with British colonisation in the West,...
Romance: The Emulation of EmpireThis dissertation offers a symptomatic reading of romance and explor...
The article focuses on the neo-Victorian postcolonial novel and on the late neo-Victorian novel with...
Abstract— The colonial experience, whose effects are still lingering after the end of direct colonia...
The growing debate over British national identity, and the place of Englishness within it, raises ...
Postcolonial theory teaches us that the Empire was as much a textual as a physical undertaking: the...
In my dissertation, I analyze six novels from five British authors, beginning with William Makepeace...
During colonial times, local cultural expression wrestled with the global as represented by the syst...
This is the first full-length study of a genre that has had increasing critical attention and popula...
As the British Empire broke up and attempted to sustain an illusion of unity under the euphemistic t...
Empires as political entities may be a thing of the past, but as a concept, empire is alive and kick...