This field-defining book offers an interpretation of the recent figurations of neo-Victorianism
published over the last ten years. Using a range of critical and cultural viewpoints, it …

Recruited from the Pathan tribes that live in the no-mans land between Pakistan and
Afghanistan, the Khyber Rifles fought for the British Raj against their own kith and kin. Jules …

Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a novel that a young writer can only admire, a double decker of
a narrative powered by real talent. It is also a novel that appears to make careful use of …

This thesis examines the representation of 'otherness' in postcolonial neo-Victorian fiction. It
analyses a selection of novels that not only engage critically with the Victorian past but …

Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca fellow officers had brought Kashmiri
concubines with them. With so much crashing stupidity within the British leadership in Kabul …

As Craig Murray notes in his preface to this exhaustively researched book, Alexander
Burnes has more often been a subject of fiction than of biography. The hero of Philip …

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