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Imperial Middlebrow - 978-90-04-42656-6 220055559999 Literary Modernism Series Editor Gernot Wimmer (University of Vienna, Austria) Editorial Board William Egginton (Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, usa) Patrick Fortmann (University of Illinois, usa) Roland Innerhofer (University of Vienna, Austria) Cindy K. Renker (University of North Texas, usa) Simonetta Sanna (Università degli Studi di Sassari, Italy) Andrew J. Webber (Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK) volume 7 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/limo - 978-90-04-42656-6 205599 Imperial Middlebrow Edited by Christoph Ehland Jana Gohrisch leiden | boston - 978-90-04-42656-6 205599 The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available online at http://catalog.loc.gov Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 2405-9315 ISBN 978-90-04-42655-9 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-42656-6 (e-book) Copyright 2020 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, mentis Verlag, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink Verlag. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. - 978-90-04-42656-6 205599 Contents Acknowledgements VII List of Figures and Tables VIII Notes on Contributors IX Introduction: Cross-colonial Encounters and Expressions of Power in Middlebrow Literature and Culture, 1890–1940 and the Present 1 Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch A Girl’s Own Empire? Imperialism and the Girl’s Own Paper, 1880 to 1903 22 Jochen Petzold Picturing Africa: Illustration in the Allan Quatermain Adventure Fictions of H. Rider Haggard 44 Kate Holterhoff “Cramful of snakes and ghosts”: B.M. Croker’s Anglo-Indian Ghost Stories 72 Christoph Singer “An artificial little community which has climbed eight thousand feet out of the world to be cool”: Sara Jeanette Duncan, Simla, and Middlebrow Aesthetics 89 Samuel Caddick Imagining the British West Indies in Middlebrow Fiction 103 Jana Gohrisch “Intimacies of complicity and critique”: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Victoria Cross’s Imperial Fiction 124 Cornelia Wächter Cross-colonial Encounters and Cultural Contestation in Somerset Maugham’s “Rain” 140 Victoria Kuttainen - 978-90-04-42656-6 205599 VI Contents Revising the Romance: Depictions of Biracial Women and Mixed Marriage in Anglo-Indian Popular Fiction 159 Melissa Edmundson “A small seasoning of curry-powder” in A.J. Cronin’s Hatter’s Castle 178 Robert Wirth Sidelining Racism and Discrimination – Recent British Black and Asian Fiction 206 Gesa Stedman Middlebrow 2.0: The Digital Affect and the New Nigerian Novel 218 Hannah Pardey Index 241 - 978-90-04-42656-6 205599 Acknowledgements This volume has had a slightly longer than usual production period, as its ini- tial idea goes back to a series of mini-conferences in London and a larger meet- ing in Reading in 2017. When the original co-editor Kate Macdonald departed in 2018, Jana Gohrisch stepped in. She did not only make it possible to continue the work but also added a new thematic and methodological focus that links historical middlebrow and contemporary postcolonial studies. We are both grateful to our support team: Masja Horn and Christa Stevens at Brill, who have provided us with guidance as professional and encouraging as ever; Yvonne Jende at the University of Paderborn played a substantial part as she oversaw the editing process, kept the project rolling and contributed in manifold ways to the success of it. Last but not least, we are immensely grateful to our contributors for their enthusiasm and patience. It has been a pleasure working with you. Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch - 978-90-04-42656-6 205599 Figures and Tables Figures 1 Illustration by Maurice Greiffenhagen for Allan’s Wife 45 2 Illustrations by Walter Paget, Russel Flint, A.C. Michael for King Solomon’s Mines 51 3 Illustration by Charles Kerr for Allan Quatermain 58 4 Illustration by Charles Kerr for Allan Quatermain 59 5 Illustration by Thure de Thulstrup for Maiwa’s Revenge 64 Tables 1 Analytical levels of the digital affect 229 2 Realizations of the EMOTION concept 233 3 Adjective collocations 235 - 978-90-04-42656-6 205599 Notes on Contributors Samuel Caddick is in the final stages of his PhD at Liverpool John Moores University. His re- search focuses on the deployment of Colonial Space as a method of managing Colonial Anxieties in Women-Authored Works of Raj Fiction. Melissa Edmundson is Lecturer of English at Clemson University (South Carolina, USA) and special- izes in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Women Writers, with interests in Women’s Ghost Stories, the Supernatural, and Anglo-Indian Popu- lar Fiction. She is the editor of two critical editions, Alice Perrin’s East of Suez (1901), published by Victorian Secrets Press in 2011, and a Broadview Edition of Dinah Mulock Craik’s The Half-Caste (1851) published in 2016. Edmundson is author of Women’s Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain (University of Wales Press, 2013) and Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850–1930: Haunted Em- pire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Her other work on British Women’s Anglo- Indian Fiction includes an article on mixed-race relationships in the novels of Alice Perrin for a special issue of Victorian Literature and Culture focusing on Victorian India. Christoph Ehland is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pad- erborn. His research focuses on Early Modern Literature and Culture, Roman- ticism, Middlebrow and Anglo-Indian Literature, Literary Culture and Spatial Practices as well as Mobility Studies. Jana Gohrisch is Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at Leibniz University Han- nover (Germany). She has published two monographs, one on Black British Literature (1994) and one on nineteenth-century British Emotion Cultures (2005). In addition to co-editing several volumes, including Postcolonial Stud- ies Across the Disciplines (Brill, 2013), she has written on Black British, Carib- bean and African Literatures, on various aspects and periods of British Litera- ture, on Popular Culture and Cultural Exchange. Her current book project contributes to Transatlantic Victorian Studies and deals with Post- Emancipation Constructions of Agency in texts about the British West Indies since the mid- nineteenth century. - 978-90-04-42656-6 205599
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