Table Of ContentImperial Middlebrow
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Imperial Middlebrow
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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