Empire Writing An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918

by Boehmer, Elleke

• ISBN13: 9780199555598
• ISBN10: 0199555591
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

'The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) 'Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . .plucked, they fade, And lose the colours Nature on them laid.' (Toru Dutt) This is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in English, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from the phase of British expansionist imperialism known as high empire. A rich and starling diversityof responses to the colonial experience emerges: voices of imperial; adventurers, administrators, memsahibs, propagandists and poets intermingle with West Indian and South African nationalists, Indian mystics, Creole balladeers, women activists and native interpreters. Drawn from India, Africa, theWest Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, and Britain, this wide-ranging selection reveals the vivid contrasts and subtle shifts in responses to colonial experience, and embraces some of empire's key symbols and emblematic moments. Comprehensive notes and full biographies ensure thatthis is one of the most compelling, readable and academically valuable source books on the period.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD: George Otto Trevelyan, An Indian Railway and The Gulf Between UsEARLY DECADES:John Ruskin, Conclusion to Inaugural LectureAnthony Trollope, AboriginalsJohn Beames, Civilian MemoirsDavid Livingstone, The Meeting with StanleyHenry Morton Stanley, The Meeting with LivingstoneMarcus Clarke, from Preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon's Poems and From the Clyde to BraidwoodEdwin Arnold, from The Light Of AsiaAlfred, Lord Tennyson, The Defence of Lucknow and Opening of the Indian and Colonial ExhibitionEdward Willmot Blyden, from The Aims and Methods of a Liberal Education for AfricansTorus Dutt, A mon pere, Sonnet - BaugmareeSonnet - The Lotus; Or Casuarina Tree from Ancient Ballads and Legends of HindustanJohn Seeley, from The Expansion of EnglandIsabella Bird, Letter from Sungei Ujong, Malay PeninsulaH. Rider Haggard, The Legend of Solomon's MinesSara Jeannette Duncan, Colonials and LiteratureRudyard Kipling, His Chance in Life, Christmas in India, Giffen's Debt, mandalay, What the People SaidA.E. Housman, 1887J. A. Froude, from The English in the West IndiesJ. J. Thomas, from FroudacityFlora Annie Steel, The Duties of the Mistress, Bopluchi, In the Permanent WayG. A. Henty, A Pipe of Mystery1880s AND 1890s CANADIAN POETRY:Isabella Valancy Crawford, War, Said the CanoeBliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pre, A Vagabond SongCharles G. D. Roberts, The Pea-Fields, My TreesArchibald Lampman, Late November, Among the OrchardsDuncan Campbell Scott, The Onondaga MadonnaTHE BULLETIN WRITERS OF THE 1890S:A.B. ("Banjo") Paterson, Clancy of the Overflor, The Travelling Post Office, Old Australian WaysHenry Lawson, The Drover's WifeBarbara Baynton, The TrampA. G. Stephens, from Introductory to The Bulletin Story BookFIN DE SIECLE:Swami Vivekananda, from The Ideal of a Universal ReligionRobert Louis Stevenson, The King of Apemans: The Royal TraderHugh Clifford, Up CountryJoseph Chamberlain, The True Conception of EmpireOlive Schreiner, from Trooper Halket of MashonalandMary Kingsley, Black GhostsJoseph Conrad, An Outpost of ProgressWilliam Watson, Jubilee Night in WestmorlandRudyard Kipling, Recessional, The White Man's BurdenTHE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR (1899-1902):Algernon Charles Swinburne, The TransvaalAlfred Austin, To Arms!Mrs Ernest Ames, An ABC for Baby PatriotsThomas Hardy, Departure, A Christmas Ghost-Story, Drummer HodgeW.E . Henley, Remonstrance, Pro Rege Nostro, The Choice of the Will from For England's SakeA., E. Housman, GrenadierHenry Newbolt, Vitai Lampada, Peace, April on Waggon Hill, SrahmandaziWilliam Watson, Rome and Another, The Inexorable Law, The True Imperialism from For EnglandRudyard Kipling, The LessonJ.A. Hobson, The Political Significance of ImperialismLATER DECADES:Cornelia Sorabji, Love and DeathLady Mary Anne Barker, from Colonial ServantsSarojini Naidu, Village Song, Jumyaun to Zobeida, Ode to H. H. the Nizam of Hyderabad, To India from The Golden ThresholdSongs of My City, Song of Radha the MilkmaidAn Anthem of Love from The Bird of TimeGeorge Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon, The British EmpireSri Aurobindo, The Object of Passive ResistanceCharles Studart Parnell, Transiit, Non Perit, Hymn to the Mother, Revelation, rebirthAlice Perrin, The Rise of Ram DinJames Joyce, Ireland at the BarEdmund Candler, from KashiStephen Leacock, Back to the BushDorothea Fairbridge, PamelaJ.E. Casely Hayford, As in a Glass Darkly and African Nationality from Ethiopia UnboundClaude McKay, Oh General Jackson, the other day, I have a News from Walter Jekyll's Jamaican Song and StoryCudjoe Fresh, from de Lecture: Old England, My Native Land, My Home; from Songs of Jamaica: The Apple-Woman's Complain; from Constab Ballads: If We Must DieRabindranath Tagore, Poems from GitanjaliWilliam Butler Yeats, Introduction to GitanjaliB. E. Baughan, Pipi on the ProwlKatherine Mansfield, How Pearl Button was Kidnapped, To Stanislwaw Wyspianski, The Wind BlowsSolomon T. Plaatje, One Night with the FugitivesAFTERWORD: Leonard Woolf, Pearls and SwineExplanatory NotesBiographiesAppendixPublishers' AcknowledgementsIndex