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“patrick brantlinger”

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  • Taming Cannibals

    Race and the Victorians

    by Patrick Brantlinger ...
    In Taming Cannibals**, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire**. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only approximate, yet the "civilizing mission" was viewed as the ultimate ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Dark Vanishings

    Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800–1930

    by Patrick Brantlinger ...
    Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously noble and suicidal, accelerants of the downfall of other races after contact with white civilization. Brantlinger finds at the heart of this belief ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Rule of Darkness

    British Literature and Imperialism, 1830–1914

    by Patrick Brantlinger ...
    A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal importance to early and mid-Victorian writers. Patrick Brantlinger asserts that the Empire was ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Who Killed Shakespeare

    What's Happened to English Since the Radical Sixties

    by Patrick Brantlinger ...
    Who killed Shakespeare? asks the world outside the university, convinced that something's rotten in the state of academia. Have English professors really tossed out the Bard to take up theory instead? After public relations disasters surrounding political correctness, deconstruction, and the Social Text hoax it seems that everyone-politicians, parents, and the press-has something to say about what ... Read more

    $59.08 CAD

  • Barbed Wire

    Capitalism and the Enclosure of the Commons

    by Patrick Brantlinger ...
    A call to transform the way we think about property, this book examines how capitalism has from its origins sought to enclose or privatize the commons, or land and other forms of property that had been viewed as communally owned, and argues that neoliberal economic policies and the corporate takeovers of urban spaces, prisons, schools, the mass media, farms, and natural resources have failed to ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Crusoe's Footprints

    Cultural Studies in Britain and America

    by Patrick Brantlinger ...
    "Cultural Studies" has emerged in British and American higher education as a movement that challenges the traditional humanities and social science disciplines. Influenced by the New Left, feminism, and poststructualist literary theory, cultural studies seeks to analyze everday life and the social construction of "subjectivities." Crusoe's Footprints encompasses the movement of many colleges and ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Bread and Circuses

    Theories of Mass Culture As Social Decay

    by Patrick Brantlinger ...
    Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins, through Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Ortega y Gasset, T. S. Eliot, and the theorists of the Frankfurt Institute, down to ... Read more

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  • States of Emergency

    Essays on Culture and Politics

    by Patrick M. Brantlinger ...
    In his latest book, Patrick Brantlinger probes the state of contemporary America. Brantlinger takes aim at neoliberal economists, the Tea Party movement, gun culture, immigration, waste value, surplus people, the war on terror, technological determinism, and globalization. An invigorating return to classic cultural studies with its concern for social justice and challenges to economic orthodoxy, ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • Under Western Eyes

    India from Milton to Macaulay

    by Balachandra Rajan ...
    Spanning nearly two and a half centuries of English literature about India, Under Western Eyes traces the development of an imperial discourse that governed the English view of India well into the twentieth century. Narrating this history from its Reformation beginnings to its Victorian consolidation, Balachandra Rajan tracks this imperial presence through a wide range of literary and ideological ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Harriet Martineau's Writing on the British Empire, vol 1

    by Deborah Logan, Antoinette Burton, Kitty Sklar, Patrick Brantlinger ...
    The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture. This edition makes her work available, and focuses on her writings on imperialism. It should be of interest to scholars of colonialism, women's writing, Victorian studies, sociology and journalism. ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Harriet Martineau's Writing on the British Empire, vol 2

    by Deborah Logan, Antoinette Burton, Kitty Sklar, Patrick Brantlinger ...
    The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture. This edition makes her work available, and focuses on her writings on imperialism. It should be of interest to scholars of colonialism, women's writing, Victorian studies, sociology and journalism. ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Harriet Martineau's Writing on the British Empire, vol 5

    by Deborah Logan, Antoinette Burton, Kitty Sklar, Patrick Brantlinger ...
    The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture. This edition makes her work available, and focuses on her writings on imperialism. It should be of interest to scholars of colonialism, women's writing, Victorian studies, sociology and journalism. ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD