Ralph Crane
Biographic Data
| ID | 207545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph Crane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph |
| FAMILY NAME | Crane |
| SIGNATURE | CRANE R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
Volume Nine of this series traces the development of the ‘world novel’, that is, English-language novels written throughout the world, beyond Britain, Ireland, and the United States. Focusing on the period up to 1950, the volume contains survey chapters and chapters on major writers, as well as chapters on book history, publishing, and the critical contexts of the work discussed. The text covers periods from renaissance literary imaginings of exo…
Book History
This chapter discusses Book History. Drawing on the disciplinary fields of ‘analytical bibliography’ and influenced by work in Annales social history, Book History takes as its subject the cultural history and the sociology of print, and also the impact of print on the ‘thought and behaviour of mankind’ from the Gutenberg press to the present day. As books make the complicated journey from the idea to print in all its variant forms, the connectio…
Flora Annie Steel
Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22 years in India, mainly in the Punjab. This collection is the first to focus entirely on this “unconventional memsahib” and her contribution to turn-of-the-century Anglo-Indian literature. The eight essays draw attention to Steel’s multifaceted work—ranging …
Picturing the Indian Tiger
In The Empire of Nature John M. MacKenzie suggests there were “three animals in India with which the British had a special hunting relationship, the tiger, the elephant and the pig” (179). Of these, the tiger is the one most closely associated with Britain's imperial relationship with India. By the mid nineteenth century, as Joseph Sramek explains, “tigers . . . had become invested with several potent meanings” (659). Several critics including Sr…
J.G. Farrell
In 1979 the novelist J.G. Farrell bought an old farmhouse near Kilcrohane on the Sheep's Head peninsula in Co. Cork, and moved to Ireland. Just four months later, in August 1979, at the age of fort
Imperialism as Diaspora
Within postcolonial studies, Britain’s long contact with India has been read generally only within the context of imperialism to inform our understanding of race, gender, identity, and power within colonialism. Yet postcolonial interpretations that focus on such single dimensions of identity risk disregarding the sense of displacement, discontinuities, and discomforts that compromised everyday life for the British in India—the Anglo-Indians—durin…
Empire Calling
The essays gathered together in this book explore the roles of the men and women who served the British Empire in Australasia and India, and those who were subject to their administration. As these essays demonstrate, administrative arrangements involve complex cross-cultural relationships in colonial spaces, often through radically unequal and racially based power relations. Colonial administration involves diverse domains of practice the Civil …
“Amid the Alien Corn”
Contesting the can(n)on
This article reveals the uneasy continuum (and gaps) between Rudyard Kipling's canonical Raj novel, Kim, and I. Allan Sealy's The TrotterNama (1988), the text that maps the history of AngloIndians. The article enumerates the principal themes of AngloIndian fiction before demonstrating the way The TrotterNama rewrites and resituates Kim, challenging his view of AngloIndia and his assumptions about race, and ultimately repositioning it as part of, …
Picturing the Indian Tiger
In The Empire of Nature John M. MacKenzie suggests there were “three animals in India with which the British had a special hunting relationship, the tiger, the elephant and the pig” (179). Of these, the tiger is the one most closely associated with Britain's imperial relationship with India. By the mid nineteenth century, as Joseph Sramek explains, “tigers . . . had become invested with several potent meanings” (659). Several critics including Sr…
J.G. Farrell
In 1979 the novelist J.G. Farrell bought an old farmhouse near Kilcrohane on the Sheep's Head peninsula in Co. Cork, and moved to Ireland. Just four months later, in August 1979, at the age of fort
Contesting the can(n)on
This article reveals the uneasy continuum (and gaps) between Rudyard Kipling's canonical Raj novel, Kim, and I. Allan Sealy's The TrotterNama (1988), the text that maps the history of AngloIndians. The article enumerates the principal themes of AngloIndian fiction before demonstrating the way The TrotterNama rewrites and resituates Kim, challenging his view of AngloIndia and his assumptions about race, and ultimately repositioning it as part of, …
Contesting the can(n)on
This article reveals the uneasy continuum (and gaps) between Rudyard Kipling's canonical Raj novel, Kim, and I. Allan Sealy's The TrotterNama (1988), the text that maps the history of AngloIndians. The article enumerates the principal themes of AngloIndian fiction before demonstrating the way The TrotterNama rewrites and resituates Kim, challenging his view of AngloIndia and his assumptions about race, and ultimately repositioning it as part of, …
“Amid the Alien Corn”
Imperialism as Diaspora
Within postcolonial studies, Britain’s long contact with India has been read generally only within the context of imperialism to inform our understanding of race, gender, identity, and power within colonialism. Yet postcolonial interpretations that focus on such single dimensions of identity risk disregarding the sense of displacement, discontinuities, and discomforts that compromised everyday life for the British in India—the Anglo-Indians—durin…
Empire Calling
The essays gathered together in this book explore the roles of the men and women who served the British Empire in Australasia and India, and those who were subject to their administration. As these essays demonstrate, administrative arrangements involve complex cross-cultural relationships in colonial spaces, often through radically unequal and racially based power relations. Colonial administration involves diverse domains of practice the Civil …
Picturing the Indian Tiger
In The Empire of Nature John M. MacKenzie suggests there were “three animals in India with which the British had a special hunting relationship, the tiger, the elephant and the pig” (179). Of these, the tiger is the one most closely associated with Britain's imperial relationship with India. By the mid nineteenth century, as Joseph Sramek explains, “tigers . . . had become invested with several potent meanings” (659). Several critics including Sr…
J.G. Farrell
In 1979 the novelist J.G. Farrell bought an old farmhouse near Kilcrohane on the Sheep's Head peninsula in Co. Cork, and moved to Ireland. Just four months later, in August 1979, at the age of fort
Flora Annie Steel
Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22 years in India, mainly in the Punjab. This collection is the first to focus entirely on this “unconventional memsahib” and her contribution to turn-of-the-century Anglo-Indian literature. The eight essays draw attention to Steel’s multifaceted work—ranging …
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
Volume Nine of this series traces the development of the ‘world novel’, that is, English-language novels written throughout the world, beyond Britain, Ireland, and the United States. Focusing on the period up to 1950, the volume contains survey chapters and chapters on major writers, as well as chapters on book history, publishing, and the critical contexts of the work discussed. The text covers periods from renaissance literary imaginings of exo…
Book History
This chapter discusses Book History. Drawing on the disciplinary fields of ‘analytical bibliography’ and influenced by work in Annales social history, Book History takes as its subject the cultural history and the sociology of print, and also the impact of print on the ‘thought and behaviour of mankind’ from the Gutenberg press to the present day. As books make the complicated journey from the idea to print in all its variant forms, the connectio…
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