Imperial emotions : the politics of empathy across the British empire / Jane Lydon. [electronic reso...
Imperial emotions : the politics of empathy across the British empire / Jane Lydon. [electronic reso...
Imperial emotions : the politics of empathy across the British empire / Jane Lydon. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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English
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1 online resource (xiii, 221 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Introduction: Emotions and empire -- Children of empire : British nationalism and colonial utopias -- Colonial 'blind spots' : images of frontier conflict -- Australian Uncle Tom's cabins -- The homeless of empire? Imperial outcasts in Bleak house -- Christian heroes on the new frontier -- Charity b...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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England
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2020.
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Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on the role of the compassionate emotions, or what today we refer to as empathy, and how they created relations across empire. Jane Lydon ex...
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Imperial emotions : the politics of empathy across the British empire / Jane Lydon. [electronic resource]
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Critical perspectives on empire
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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74VKaz0R0qWd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaz0R0qWd
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1-108-65358-8
1-108-63864-3
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909/.0971241
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991024402495802626
