Melodramatic Imperial Writing: From the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes

Contents

vii Contents acknowledgments ix introduction “At Last!” and “Too Late!” 1 part one melodrama as plot one Imperial Melodrama after the Sepoy Rebellion 29 two Romance; or, Melodrama and the Adventure of History 63 part two melodrama as aestheticized feeling three Imperialist Poetry, Aestheticism, and Melodrama’s Man of Action 93 four Stevenson’s Melodramatic Anthropology 126 part three melodrama as distant homeland five Olive Schreiner and the Melodrama of the Karoo 155 conclusion Pirates and Spies 188 notes 195 bibliography 233 index 247 ...