Reaches of Empire: The English Novel from Edgeworth to Dickens

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Author(s): Suvendrini Perera
Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 1991

Language: English
Pages: xii,164
City: New York

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading Noncollusively
Interruption, interpolation, "Improvement" : inscribing abolition and "amalgamation" in Edgeworth's Belinda --
Proper places : spatial economics in Austen and Gaskell --
"Wholesale, retail, and for exportation" : empire and the family business in Dombey and Son --
"Fit only for a Seraglio" : the discourse of oriental mysogyny in Jane Eyre and Vanity fair --
"All the girls say serve him right" : The multiple anxieties of Edwin Drood
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index