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DICKENS AND EMPIRE To Fay Moore and Sandra Moore, with love and gratitude Dickens and Empire Discourses of Class, Race and Colonialism in the Works of Charles Dickens GRACE MOORE University of Melbourne, Australia Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © Grace Moore 2004 The author has asserted her moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, in- cluding photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, with- out permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Moore, Grace Dickens and empire : discourses of class, race and colonialism in the works of Charles Dickens. - (The nineteenth century series) 1. Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Social and political views 2. Imperialism in literature 3. Colonies in literature 4. Race in literature 5. India - History - Sepoy Rebellion, 1857- 1858 - Literature and the rebellion I. Title 823.8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Moore, Grace, 1974- Dickens and empire : discourses of class, race and colonialism in the works of Charles Dickens / Grace Moore. p. cm. - (The nineteenth century series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7546-3412-4 1. Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Political and social views. 2. Imperialism in literature. 3. Literature and society - England - History - 19th century. 4. Dickens, Charles, 1812- 1870 - Knowledge- India. 5. Social classes in literature. 6. Colonies in literature. 7. India- In literature. 8. Race in literature. I. Title. II. Series: Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England) PR4592.I47M66 2004 823'.8—dc22 2004004819 ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-3412-6 (hbk) Contents General Editors' Preface vi List of Figures vii List of Abbreviations viii A Note on Terminology ix Acknowledgements x Introduction 1 1 Emigration, Transportation, and the Problem of Closure 7 2 National Identity 21 3 The Racial Other 43 4 Red Tape and Circumlocution: The Crimean War 75 5 'How to Make an India Pickle' 91 6 A Tale of Three Revolutions: Dickens's Response to the Sepoy Rebellion 113 7 Containing Cawnpore: The Reinvention and Reinterpretation of the Indian Mutiny 135 8 The 1860s and the Decline of the Discourse 157 Afterword 181 Bibliography 185 Index 201 The Nineteenth Century Series General Editors' Preface The aim of the series is to reflect, develop and extend the great burgeoning of interest in the nineteenth century that has been an inevitable feature of recent years, as that former epoch has come more sharply into focus as a locus for our understanding not only of the past but of the contours of our modernity. It centres primarily upon major authors and subjects within Romantic and Victorian literature. It also includes studies of other British writers and issues, where these are matters of current debate: for example, biography and autobiography, journalism, periodical literature, travel writing, book production, gender and non-canonical writing. We are dedicated principally to publishing original monographs and symposia; our policy is to embrace a broad scope in chronology, approach and range of concern, and both to recognize and cut innovatively across such parameters as those suggested by the designations 'Romantic' and 'Victorian'. We welcome new ideas and theories, while valuing traditional scholarship. It is hoped that the world which predates yet so forcibly predicts and engages our own will emerge in parts, in the wider sweep, and in the lively streams of disputation and change that are so manifest an aspect of its intellectual, artistic and social landscape. Vincent Newey Joanne Shattock University of Leicester List of Figures 2.1 'The Shipwrecked Ministers Saved by the Great Exhibition Steamer'. Punch. Volume 20,1851. 237. Reproduced with permission of Punch Ltd. 33 2.2 'Specimens from Mr. Punch's Industrial Exhibition of 1850'. Punch. Volume 18,1850. 145. Reproduced with permission of Punch Ltd. 33 3.1 'The Land of Liberty'. Punch. Volume 13,1847. 215. Reproduced with permission of Punch Ltd. 48 4.1 'A Struggle Between Duty and Inclination'. Punch. 22 April 1854. 165. Reproduced with permission of Punch Ltd. 79 5.1 Detail from The Illustrated London News Grand Diorama of the Great Exhibition. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. 100 7.1 'The Asiatic Mystery'. Punch. 8 August 1857. 65. Reproduced with permission of Punch Ltd. 137 7.2 'Justice'. Punch. 12 September 1857. 109. Reproduced with permission of Punch Ltd. 137 7.3 'British Homes in India, 1857'. Mansell/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images. 138 7.4 'Miss Wheeler Defending Herself Against the Sepoys'. Charles Ball. The History of the Indian Mutiny. Volume I. Between 380 and 381. 138 8.1 'How Not To Do It'. Punch. 12 October 1867. Reproduced with permission of Punch Ltd. 174 List of Abbreviations A Child's History of England CHE American Notes AN A Tale of Two Cities TC Barnaby Rudge BR Bleak House BH Christmas Books CB Christmas Stories CS David Copperfield DC Dombey and Son DS Great Expectations GE Hard Times HT Little Dorrit LD Martin Chuzzlewit MC Miscellaneous Papers MP Nicholas Nickleby NN Oliver Twist OT Our Mutual Friend OMF Sketches By Boz SBB The Mystery of Edwin Drood ED The Old Curiosity Shop OCS The Pickwick Papers PP The Uncommercial Traveller and Reprinted Pieces UT an RP All references are to the Oxford Illustrated Dickens unless stated otherwise. A Note on Terminology In order to be historically accurate the terms and names in this book will be those used by the Victorians. Thus, place names like 'Kanpur' will take the anglicized 'Cawnpore', Native Americans will be referred to as 'Indians' and 'Jamaicans' will refer to the descendants of African slaves transported to the island. Although it is now common to refer to the 1857 uprising in India as the First Indian War of Independence, I shall adhere to the contemporary British labels, 'the Sepoy Rebellion' and the 'Indian Mutiny'. Finally, idiosyncratic spellings have not been corrected, hence several variants on words like 'chapattis' will be found within the text.
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