Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book
history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both
fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single
book. Contributors revisit well-known works associated with the
British empire, including Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre," Thomas
Macaulay's "History of England," Charles Pearson's "National Life
and Character," and Robert Baden-Powell's "Scouting for Boys." They
explore anticolonial texts in which authors such as C. L. R. James
and Mohandas K. Gandhi chipped away at the foundations of imperial
authority, and they introduce books that may be less familiar to
students of empire. Taken together, the essays reveal the dynamics
of what the editors call an "imperial commons," a lively,
empire-wide print culture. They show that neither empire nor book
were stable, self-evident constructs. Each helped to legitimize the
other.
"Contributors." Tony Ballantyne, Elleke Boehmer, Catherine Hall,
Isabel Hofmeyr, Aaron Kamugisha, Marilyn Lake, Charlotte Macdonald,
Derek Peterson, Mrinalini Sinha, Tridip Suhrud, Andre du Toit
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