Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class

by JohnKucich (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2006

  $65.24

  Reveals the role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. This book shows how the ideological and psychological dynamics of empire, particularly its reorganization of class identities at the colonial periphery, depended on figurations of masochism.