Narcissism of Empire: Loss, Rage and Revenge in the Works of Thomas de Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling

by Diane Simmons

Book Overview

Widely read in the age of British imperialism and still popular today, the five writers studied here have allowed millions to participate vicariously in the imperial project. Yet all of these writers, so instrumental in popularising the imperial agenda of power and dominance, bore deep emotional scars and as adults bolstered their fragile psychic states through fantasies of empire. While soldiers and politicians may know to bury or at least camouflage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845191579
• ISBN13: 9781845191573
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 148 Pages