Caribbean Shadows and Victorian Ghosts: Women's Writing and Decolonization

by Kathleen J. Renk

IN AN ERA of social chaos, religious skepticism, and postrevolutionary fear, the idea of the stable middle-class family acquired a mythical status in nineteenth-century England. This image of the traditional family--based upon the supposed natural superiority of white elders--also served as a paradigm for the relationship of the British to their colonial subjects during the Victorian era. As this book shows, remnants of this myth live on and are played...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813918367
• ISBN13: 9780813918365
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher