Cover
About the Author
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Introduction
Chapter One - Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories
I: Empire, Geography, and Culture
II: Images of the Past, Pure and Impure
III: Two Visions in Heart of Darkness
IV: Discrepant Experiences
V: Connecting Empire to Secular Interpretation
Chapter: Two - Consolidated Vision
I: Narrative and Social Space
II: Jane Austen and Empire
III: The Cultural Integrity of Empire
IV: The Empire at Work: Verdi’s Aida
V: The Pleasures of Imperialism
VI: The Native Under Control
VII: Camus and the French Imperial Experience
VIII: A Note on Modernism
Chapter Three - Resistance and Opposition
I: There Are Two Sides
II: Themes of Resistance Culture
III: Yeats and Decolonization
IV: The Voyage In and the Emergence of Opposition
V: Collaboration, Independence, and Liberation
Chapter Four - Freedom from Domination in the Future
I: American Ascendancy: The Public Space at War
II: Challenging Orthodoxy and Authority
III: Movements and Migrations
Notes