The English Novel in the Twentieth Century: The Doom of Empire |
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... England at the beginning of this story , Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee of 1897 , which James Morris has described ... England's final loss of India , which began a series of other losses after 1947 , all of which added up to the end ...
... England at the beginning of this story , Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee of 1897 , which James Morris has described ... England's final loss of India , which began a series of other losses after 1947 , all of which added up to the end ...
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... England , would mean disaster to the imperial country . England would cease to be England if it were deprived of its overseas possessions . ' The Repeal of the Union we regard as fatal to the Empire and we will consent to it never never ...
... England , would mean disaster to the imperial country . England would cease to be England if it were deprived of its overseas possessions . ' The Repeal of the Union we regard as fatal to the Empire and we will consent to it never never ...
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... England , and so the meaning is in Forster's story what it is in Lawrence's that England must and shall return to the keeping of women , out of the custody of men . At the end , Helen has a fatherless child , Margaret an invalid husband ...
... England , and so the meaning is in Forster's story what it is in Lawrence's that England must and shall return to the keeping of women , out of the custody of men . At the end , Helen has a fatherless child , Margaret an invalid husband ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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