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9781845191573
Narcissism of Empire Loss, Rage and Revenge in Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Isak Dinesen
by Simmons, Diane
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- ISBN-13: 9781845191573
- ISBN: 1845191579
- Publication Date: 2007
- Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
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This is a study of five writers widely read in the age of British imperialism. They bore emotional scars and as adults bolstered their fragile states through fantasies of empire. It is said that, 'Love's loss is empire's gain', and for these writers, empire presented an opportunity to compensate for childhood calamity.Simmons, Diane is the author of 'Narcissism of Empire Loss, Rage and Revenge in Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Isak Dinesen', published 2007 under ISBN 9781845191573 and ISBN 1845191579.
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