Empire writing: an anthology of colonial literature, 1870-1918 9780192832658, 0192832654
"This is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in
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English Pages lvi, 507 pages ; 20 cm Year 1998
Table of contents :
Foreword. from The competition wallah. An Indian railway
The gulf between us / George Otto Trevelyan. Early decades. Conclusion to inaugural lecture / John Ruskin --
Aboriginals / Anthony Trollope --
Civilian memoirs / John Beames --
The meeting with Stanley / David Livingstone --
The meeting with Livingstone / Henry Morton Stanley --
from Preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon's Poems / Marcus Clarke --
From the Clyde to Braidwood / 'Australie' (Emily Manning) --
from The light of Asia / Edwin Arnold --
The defence of Lucknow
Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
from The aims and methods of a liberal education for Africans / Edward Wilmot Blyden --
from Ancient ballads and legends of Hindustan. À mon père
Sonnet : Baugmaree
Sonnet : the lotus
Our casuarina tree / Toru Dutt --
from The expansion of England / John Seeley --
Letter from Sungei Ujong, Malay Peninsula / Isabella Bird --
The legend of Solomon's mines / H. Rider Haggard --
Colonials and literature / Sara Jeannette Duncan --
His chance in life
Christmas in India
Giffen's debt
Mandalay
What the people said / Rudyard Kipling --
1887 / A.E. Housman --
from The English in the West Indies / J.A. Froude --
from Froudacity / J.J. Thomas --
The duties of the mistress
Bopolûchi
In the permanent way / Flora Annie Steel --
A pipe of mystery / G.A. Henty. 1880s and 1890s Canadian poetry. War
Said the canoe / Isabella Valancy Crawford --
Low tide on Grand Pré
A vagabond song / Bliss Carman --
The pea-fields
My trees / Charles G.D. Roberts --
Late November
Among the orchards / Archibald Lampman --
The Onondaga madonna / Duncan Campbell Scott. The bulletin writers of the 1890s. Clancy of the overflow
The travelling post office
Old Australian ways / A.B. ('Banjo') Paterson --
The drover's wife / Henry Lawson --
The tramp / Barbara Baynton --
from Introductory to The bulletin story book / A.G. Stephens. Fin de siècle. from The ideal of a universal religion / Swami Vivekananda --
The king of Apemama : the royal trader / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Up country / Hugh Clifford --
The true conception of empire / Joseph Chamberlain --
from Trooper Halket of Mashonaland / Olive Schreiner --
Black ghosts / Mary Kingsley --
An outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad --
Jubilee night in Westmorland / William Watson --
Recessional
The white man's burden / Rudyard Kipling. The South African War (1899-1902). The Transvaal / Algernon Charles Swinburne --
To arms! / Alfred Austin --
An ABC, for baby patriots / Mrs. Ernest Ames --
Departure
A Christmas ghost-story
Drummer Hodge / Thomas Hardy --
from For England's sake. Remonstrance
Pro rege nostro
The choice of the will / W.E. Henley --
Grenadier / A.E. Housman --
Vitaï Lampada
Peace
April on Waggon Hill
Sráhmandázi / Henry Newbolt --
from For England. Rome and another
The inexorable law
The true imperialism / William Watson --
The lesson / Rudyard Kipling --
The political significance of imperialism / J.A. Hobson. Later decades. Love and death / Cornelia Sorabji --
from Colonial servants / Lady Mary Anne Barker --
from The golden threshold. Village-song
Humayun to Zobeida
Ode to H.H. the Nizam of Hyderabad
To India / Sarojini Naidu --
from The bird of time. Songs of my city
Song of Radha the milkmaid
An anthem of love / Sarojini Naidu --
The British empire / George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon --
The object of passive resistance
Charles Stewart Parnell, 1891
Transiit, non periit
Hymn to the mother : bandemataram
Revelation
Rebirth / Sri Aurobindo --
The rise of Ram Din / Alice Perrin --
Ireland at the bar / James Joyce --
from Káshi / Edmund Candler --
Back to the bush / Stephen Leacock --
Pamela / Dorothea Fairbridge --
from Ethiopia unbound. As in a glass darkly
African nationality / J.E. Casely Hayford --
from Walter Jekyll's Jamaican song and story. Oh General Jackson!
The other day
I have a news / Claude McKay --
from Songs of Jamaica. Cudjoe fresh from de lecture
Old England
My native land, my home / Claude McKay --
from Constab ballads. The apple-woman's complaint / Claude McKay --
If we must die / Claude McKay --
Poems from Gitanjali (song offerings) / Rabindranath Tagore --
Introduction to Gitanjali / William Butler Yeats --
Pipi on the prowl / B.E. Baughan --
How Pearl Button was kidnapped
To Stanislaw Wyspianski
The wind blows / Katherine Mansfield --
One night with the fugitives / Solomon T. Plaatje. Afterword. Pearls and swine / Leonard Woolf --
'L'Irlanda alla sbarra' : the original Italian text of Joyce's 'Ireland at the bar' / James Joyce.
