ABSTRACT
This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the appeal to civility had a significant effect on the constitution of colonial subject-hood and reveals 'civility' as an ideal trope for the ambivalence of imperial power itself.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|32 pages
Policing the boundaries
Civility and gender in the Anglo-Indian romances, 1880–1900
chapter 4|22 pages
Savage pursuits
Missionary civility and colonization in E. M. Forster’s “The Life to Come”
