Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-259) and index.
Contents:
Introducing: colonial discourse -- Travel, exploration and discovery: from imagination to inquiry -- The discourse of difference: constructing the colonial exotic -- Empire management: from domestication to spectacle -- Civilizing the empire: colonialism and the ideology of moral-material progress -- Aesthetic understanding: from colonial English to imperial cosmopolitans.
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