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Acknowledgments vii Part One: Foundations 1. Semi-Detached Empire 3 2. Reverse Colonization in The War of the Worlds 36 Part Two: Façades 3. Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Anglo-Indian 59 4. Outposts of Progress: Joseph Conrad’s Suburban Speculation 84 5. Beyond the Abyss: Degeneracy and Death in the Edwardian Suburb 115 Part Three: Semi-Detachment 6. Ressentiment and Late-Imperial Fiction 149 7. George Orwell and the Road to West Bletchley 171 Epilogue: “In the Blood and Not on the Skin” 201 Notes 211 Bibliography 235 Index 255 CONTENTS This page intentionally left blank ...

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