Imperium of the Soul: The Political and Aesthetic Imagination of Edwardian Imperialists

by Norman Etherington

Book Overview

Some of the most compelling and enduring creative work of the late Victorian and Edwardian Era came from committed imperialists and conservatives. Their continuing popularity owes a great deal to the way their guiding ideas resonated with modernism in the arts and psychology. The analogy they perceived between the imperial business of subjugating savage subjects and the civilised ego's struggle to subdue the unruly savage within generated some...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152610606X
• ISBN13: 9781526106063
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"