Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period

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Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period is written by Angelia Poon and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0754658481 (ISBN 10) and 9780754658481 (ISBN 13).

Angelia Poon examines the ways in which British colonial authority in the nineteenth century was predicated on its being rendered in ways that were recognizably 'English'. Reading a range of texts by authors that include Charlotte Brontë, Mary Seacole, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, and H. Rider Haggard, Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period focuses on the strategies-narrative, illustrative, and rhetorical- used to perform English subjectivity during the time of the British Empire.