It seems trite to say that a book about love was a labour of love, but in this case, it is also
accurate. Moreover, it is a labour that would not have been possible without the support of …

Many well-known male writers produced fictions about colonial spaces and discussed the
advantages of realism over romance, and vice versa, in the 'art of fiction'debate of the 1880s; …

'Within the borders of these isles shall remain a race one calls Indo. Neither white, nor
brown.'This 'Indo'was part of the Indo-Europeans, a group of mixed indigenous and …

Across their empire, the British spoke ceaselessly of deviants of undesirables, ne'er do
wells, petit-tyrants and rogues. With obvious literary appeal, these soon became stock …

This article begins with a brief discussion of existing scholars' work on The Sheik before
analyzing the differences between the novel and the film. These arise from Britain's …

IN THEIR INTRODUCTION to The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History c. 1880–1900,
Sally Ledger and Roger Luckhurst aptly summarize the turn of the century in England as a …

For decades, scholars have been trying to answer the question: how was colonial Burma
perceived in and by the Western world, and how did people in countries like the United …

HSU-MING TEO... while [the love letter] may be expressive of sincere esteem and affection, it
should be of a dignified tone, and written in such a style, that if it should ever come under the …

This thesis is a literary history which seeks to elucidate dominant Western cultural narratives
around female virginity loss, and the ways these have evolved. It takes as its primary focus …

The British romantic novel became a distinct and bestselling genre during the mid-
nineteenth century, when Charlotte M. Yonge's The Heir of Redclyffe (1853) inspired other …