Description: Imperium of the Soul : The Political and Aesthetic Imagination of Edwardian Imperialists, Paperback by Etherington, Norman, ISBN 152610606X, ISBN-13 9781526106063, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Some of the most compelling and enduring creative work of the late Victorian and Edwardian Era came from committed imperialists and conservatives. Their continuing popularity owes a great deal to the way their guiding ideas resonated with modernism in the arts and psychology. The analogy they perceived between the imperial business of subjugating savage subjects and the civilised ego's struggle to subdue the unruly savage within generated some of their best artistic endeavours. In a series of thematically linked chapters Imperium of the soul explores the work of writers Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Rider Haggard and John Buchan along with the composer Edward Elgar and the architect Herbert Baker. It culminates with an analysis of their mutual infatuation with T. E. Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - who represented all their dreams for the future British Empire but whose ultimate paralysis of creative imagination exposed the fatal flaw in their psycho-political project. This transdisciplinary study will interest not only scholars of imperialism and the history of ideas but general readers fascinated by bygone ideas of exotic adventure and colonial rule.
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Book Title: Imperium of the Soul : the Political and Aesthetic Imagination of Edwardian Imperialists
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Topic: Popular Culture, General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Historical, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 0.6 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 13.3 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Norman Etherington
Book Series: Studies in Imperialism Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
