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... imperialists were the most generous and romantic in their feeling for other races . For instance , Edwin Arnold was a ... imperialist character and financed explorer expeditions like Stanley's three - year voyage from Zanzibar to the ...
... imperialists were the most generous and romantic in their feeling for other races . For instance , Edwin Arnold was a ... imperialist character and financed explorer expeditions like Stanley's three - year voyage from Zanzibar to the ...
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... imperialist literature . Conrad was the obvious candidate for the job of supplying this ; because in both literary and intellectual terms he was ambitious but ambiguous : he made a genuine cult of English and adven- turous heroism , but ...
... imperialist literature . Conrad was the obvious candidate for the job of supplying this ; because in both literary and intellectual terms he was ambitious but ambiguous : he made a genuine cult of English and adven- turous heroism , but ...
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... imperialist , she is not even anti - imperialist , as that term applies to , say , E. M. Forster . Lessing's subject is what comes after the judgment upon empire - the tragi - comedy of a life com- mitted a priori and without hesitation ...
... imperialist , she is not even anti - imperialist , as that term applies to , say , E. M. Forster . Lessing's subject is what comes after the judgment upon empire - the tragi - comedy of a life com- mitted a priori and without hesitation ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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