Writing the Urban Jungle: Reading Empire in London from Doyle to Eliot Book

Writing the Urban Jungle: Reading Empire in London from Doyle to Eliot, Much has been written about cultural imperialism and the effects of Britain and British culture on colonized people, but Joseph McLaughlin suggests that the influence worked both ways. Focusing on the relationship between the literature of British imperia, Writing the Urban Jungle: Reading Empire in London from Doyle to Eliot

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Writing the Urban Jungle: Reading Empire in London from Doyle to Eliot
Written by author Joseph McLaughlin
Published by University of Virginia Press, March 2000
Much has been written about cultural imperialism and the effects of Britain and British culture on colonized people, but Joseph McLaughlin suggests that the influence worked both ways. Focusing on the relationship between the literature of British imperia
McLaughlin (English, Ohio U.) contends that the foreignness of the colonies impacted British culture at home as well as vice versa. The Sherlockian tales and ; works by William Booth, Jack London, Joseph Conrad; and supply his evidence. Annotation c. Book

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1 An Irritation to Metaphor: Late-Victorian London as Urban Jungle 1
2 Holmes and the Range: Frontiers Old and New in A Study in Scarlet 27
3 The Romance of Invasion: Cocaine and Cannibals in The Sign of Four 53
4 Colonizing the Urban Jungle: General Booth's In Darkest England and the Way Out 79
5 Writing London: East End Ethnography in Jack London's The People of the Abyss 104
6 Where Does the East End?: With Conrad in Darkest Soho 133
7 "What Are the Roots That Clutch?": Money Migration, and The Waste Land 168
Notes 195
Bibliography 221
Index 229

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	Acknowledgments
1	An Irritation to Metaphor: Late-Victorian London as Urban Jungle	1
2	Holmes and the Range: Frontiers Old and New in A Study in Scarlet	27
3	The Romance of Invasion: Cocaine and Cannibals in The Sign of Four	53
4	Colonizing the Urban Jungle: General Booth's In Darkest England and the Way Out	79
5	Writing London: East End Ethnography in Jack London's The People of the Abyss	104
6	Where Does the East End?: With Conrad in Darkest Soho	133
7	"What Are the Roots That Clutch?": Money Migration, and The Waste Land	168
	Notes	195
	Bibliography	221
	Index	229