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From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Heart of Darkness, The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire shows the literary and historical context within which–and against which–both Conrad and Kipling wrote their masterpieces.
These works have deeply influenced later writings that deal with the ambitions, complexities, and failures of imperial projects of cultural influence and political control. English, American, South Asian, and African authors from Saul Bellow to Salman Rushdie have worked with and against the models pioneered by Conrad and Kipling in the late Victorian era; their revolutionary impact is illuminated in this text.
Handsomely produced and affordably priced, Longman Cultural Editions consist of the complete text of an important literary work, reliably edited, headed by an inviting introduction, supplemented by helpful annotations, accompanied by a table of significant dates and a guide for further study, then followed by contextual materials that reveal the conversations and controversies of its historical moment.
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
About Longman Cultural Editions
About This Edition
Introduction
Table of Dates
Rudyard Kipling: Poems and Stories
A Tale of Two Cities
The Last Department
The Widow at Windsor
Tommy
The Young British Soldier
Fuzzy-Wuzzy
Gunga Din
Mandalay
Recessional
The White Man’s Burden
Ulster 1912
[Footnotes to Kipling Poems]
Without Benefit of Clergy
[Footnotes to Kipling, Without Benefit of Clergy]
The Man Who Would Be King
[Footnotes to “The Man Who Would Be King”]
Contexts: Empire and Its Discontents
Edward Lear: “The Akond of Swat”
Hilaire Belloc: “I, the Poor Indian, justly called ‘The Poor’”
“The Llama”
W. S. Gilbert: “The British Tar”
“The Darned Mounseer”
“The King of Canoodle-Dum”
Christina Rossetti, “In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857”
Ghalib: from Dastambu: A Bouquet of Flowers
“Now every English soldier that bears arms”
Bahadur Shah II: “I am not the light of anyone’s eye”
“I cannot bring myself to like this despoiled wilderness”
Major R.C.W. Mitford, from To Cabul with the Cavalry Brigade
Howard Hensman, from The Afghan War of 1879-80
[Footnotes to Contexts: Empire)]
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Contexts: The Scramble for Africa
Olaudah Equiano, from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Henry Morton Stanley, from Through the Dark Continent
from Address to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce
Joseph Conrad, from Congo Diary
Roger Casement, from Report to Parliament on the Congo
[Footnotes to Contexts: The Scramble for Africa”
Further Reading
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