War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma - gebunden oder broschiert

""War of No Pity" mounts a bold challenge to standard postcolonial interpretations of Victorian imperial culture. Through painstakingly close reading of an impressive array of both familiar and relatively unknown texts, and with vigorous writing, Christopher Herbert takes on a powerful critical consensus--from Edward Said's case against the West's unified 'will to power' to the dismissal of Victorian moral anxieties by prominent critics of Victorian literature. In short, this book fulfills its explicit goal of disturbing 'received opinion' in a field ready to be reinvigorated by fresh insights and questions."--Margery Sabin, Wellesley College "Christopher Herbert has written a searching, scrupulously researched, cogently argued, and, above all, brave and independent book that deserves to be widely read and debated--a book sure to appeal to students and scholars in a variety of areas, including literary studies and history."--James Buzard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology