The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual Desire
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (665 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822316897 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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"An erudite study"--Novel: A Forum on Fiction"Presents psychological readings of a broad range of modernist writers from Rudyard Kipling to Saki. Perceptive convincing"--Victorian Studies"Meticulously thought out loaded with intelligence and insight"--Modern Fiction Studies
Questioning the popular assumption that Britain's empire functioned with symbolic efficiency on sublimated desire, this book presents a counterhistory of the empire's many layers of conflict and ambivalence.. In The Ruling Passion, Christopher Lane examines the relations among masculinity, desire, and empire in British colonialist and imperialist fictions at the turn of the twentieth century
Excellent readings J. C. Freyre I read this book as part of a research seminar that involved writing an extended essay on colonial fiction, politics, and friendship, and found it very useful and full of insight. Especially valuable to me were the chapters on Forster, Kipling, and Conrad, partly because they are the most developed in the book and draw heavily on manuscript research, with passages I couldn’t otherwise find in published versions of Conrad&. My Maugham Collection said Comments on Maugham chapter. I am only commenting on one of the chapters in this book, because that's the one that interests me: "Maugham's Of Human Bondage and the Anatomy of Desire"Lane's chapter is a demonstration of one having a theory and, driven by one's conviction that it is true, one consciously or unconsciously (since he is taking quite a bit from Freud) forces one's evidence to fit the theory. It can be said that one is "seeing things."In order t