Fiction & the Colonial Experience

British colonialism provided a rich vein of material for the novelists of the first half of the 20th century. This study, originally published in 1968, looks at five writers and their reaction to the Empire: Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene.

Autorentext
Since 1992 Jeffrey Meyers has been a professional writer in Berkeley, California. He is one of ten Americans who are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2005 received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 'to honor exceptional achievement.' Professor Meyers has published 54 books and 1,080 articles on art, film, and modern American, English and European literature. His wide range of interests include bibliography, editing, literary criticism and biography.

Inhalt

1. Rudyard Kipling: Codes of Heroism 2. E. M. Forster: A Passage to India 3. Joseph Conrad: The Meaning of Civilization 4. Joyce Cary: Authority and Freedom 5. Graham Green: The Decline of the Colonial Novel