Imperial masochism

John Kucich

Original title: Imperial Masochism

first published 2006 Princeton University Press, 2009 280 pages

"In Imperial Masochism, John Kucich reveals the central role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. Placing the colonial writers Robert Louis Stevenson, Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad in their cultural context, Kucich shows how the ideological and psychological dynamics of empire, particularly its reo...

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Imperial Masochism edition · 2009 · Princeton University Press · 258 pages · 9781282129689
Imperial Masochism edition · 2009 · Princeton University Press · 280 pages · 9781400827404
Imperial masochism hardcover · 2007 · Princeton University Press · 258 pages · 9780691127125

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