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Heart of Darkness, The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire, A Longman Cultural Edi...

ISBN: 9780321364678 | 0321364678
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 5/30/2006

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
These works have deeply influenced later writings that deal with the ambitions, complexities, and failures of imperial projects of cultural influence and political control. English, American, South Asian, and African authors from Saul Bellow to Salman Rushdie have worked with and against the models pioneered by Conrad and Kipling in the late Victorian era; their revolutionary impact is illuminated in this text. From Longman's Cultural Editions series," Heart of Darkness, The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire" shows the literary a... MORE
List of Illustrationsvii
About Longman Cultural Editionsix
About This Editionxi
Introductionxv
Table of Datesxxiii
Rudyard Kipling: Poems and Stories... MORE1(82)
A Tale of Two Cities
2(3)
The Last Department
5(1)
The Widow at Windsor
6(2)
Tommy
8(1)
The Young British Soldier
9(2)
Fuzzy-Wuzzy
11(2)
Gunga Din
13(3)
Mandalay
16(2)
Recessional
18(2)
The White Man's Burden
20(2)
Ulster, 1912
22(2)
Without Benefit of Clergy
24(22)
The Man Who Would Be King
46(37)
Contexts: Empire and Its Discontents83(40)
Edward Lear, "The Akond of Swat"
84(3)
Hilaire Belloc, "I the Poor Indian"
87(2)
"The Llama"
88(1)
W.S. Gilbert, "The British Tar"
89(8)
"The Darned Mounseer"
91(1)
"The King of Canoodle-Dum"
92(5)
Christina Rossetti, "In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857"
97(1)
Ghalib, from Dastambu: A Bouquet of Flowers
98(7)
"Now every English soldier that bears arms"
104(1)
Bahadur Shah II, "I am not the light of anyone's eye"
105(1)
"I cannot bring myself to like this despoiled wilderness"
106(1)
Major R.C.W. Mitford, from To Caubul with the Cavalry Brigade
106(7)
Howard Hensman, from The Afghan War of 1879-80
113(10)
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness123(94)
Contexts: The Scramble for Africa217(54)
Olaudah Equiano, from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
218(14)
Henry Morton Stanley, from Through the Dark Continent
232(19)
from Address to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce
245(6)
Joseph Conrad, from Congo Diary
251(3)
Roger Casement, from Report to Parliament on the Congo
254(17)
Further Reading271

David Damrosch is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and past president of the American Comparative Literature Association. He has written widely on world literature from antiquity to the present. His admired books, with lively appeal not only to the academic world but also to general readers, include The Narrative Covenant (1987), What Is World Literature? (2003), and The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007). In addition to editing the Longman Cultural Edition of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” Rudyard Kipling’s ”The Man Who Would be King,” and Other Works on Empire, he is the inspired genius, founding force, and general editor of the first three editions of the six-volume Longman Anthology of British Literature and now general editor of The Longman Anthology of World Literature.



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