Grand Christmas Pantomime, Entitled Gulliver's Travels
Title | Grand Christmas Pantomime, Entitled Gulliver's Travels PDF eBook |
Author | Henry James Byron |
Publisher | |
Pages | 29 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | Pantomimes |
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Grand ... Christmas Pantomime for 1872-73, Entitled Tom Thumb; Or, The Story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table ...
Title | Grand ... Christmas Pantomime for 1872-73, Entitled Tom Thumb; Or, The Story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table ... PDF eBook |
Author | Theatre Royal (Edinburgh, Scotland) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1872 |
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A Guide to the Pantomimes of 1869. The history of pantomime, etc
Title | A Guide to the Pantomimes of 1869. The history of pantomime, etc PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1870 |
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New and Original Grand Christmas Comic Pantomime, the Wonderful Travels of Gulliver, as represented at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, December 21st, 1867
Title | New and Original Grand Christmas Comic Pantomime, the Wonderful Travels of Gulliver, as represented at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, December 21st, 1867 PDF eBook |
Author | Henry James Byron |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 1868 |
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Title | The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 712 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Catalogs, Union |
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Grand Christmas Comic Pantomime for 1864-5, Entitled Harlequin Gulliver, and His Wife; Or, The Three Kings, the Seven Cyclops, and the Fairy Fauns of the Living Waters
Title | Grand Christmas Comic Pantomime for 1864-5, Entitled Harlequin Gulliver, and His Wife; Or, The Three Kings, the Seven Cyclops, and the Fairy Fauns of the Living Waters PDF eBook |
Author | Adelphi Theatre (Liverpool, England) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 31 |
Release | 1864 |
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Empire Islands
Title | Empire Islands PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Weaver-Hightower |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780816648634 |
Through a detailed unpacking of the castaway genre’s appeal in English literature, Empire Islands forwards our understanding of the sociopsychology of British Empire. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower argues convincingly that by helping generations of readers to make sense of—and perhaps feel better about—imperial aggression, the castaway story in effect enabled the expansion and maintenance of European empire. Empire Islands asks why so many colonial authors chose islands as the setting for their stories of imperial adventure and why so many postcolonial writers “write back” to those island castaway narratives. Drawing on insightful readings of works from Thomas More’s Utopia to Caribbean novels like George Lamming’s Water with Berries, from canonical works such as Robinson Crusoe and The Tempest to the lesser-known A Narrative of the Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel by Ralph Morris, Weaver-Hightower examines themes of cannibalism, piracy, monstrosity, imperial aggression, and the concept of going native. Ending with analysis of contemporary film and the role of the United States in global neoimperialism, Weaver-Hightower exposes how island narratives continue not only to describe but to justify colonialism. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower is assistant professor of English and postcolonial studies at the University of North Dakota.