TY - BOOK AU - Brantlinger, Patrick AU - Brantlinger, Patrick, TI - Rule of Darkness: : British literature and imperialism, 1830-1914 SN - 9780801497674 U1 - 820.9358 BRA PY - 1988/// CY - Ithaca PB - : Cornell University Press, KW - Literature KW - English literatures KW - English & Old English literatures KW - English & Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures KW - English Literature -- History And Criticism -- 19Th Century KW - English Literature -- History And Criticism -- 20Th Century N1 - IntroductionPART I. DAWN1. From Dawn Island to Heart of Darkness2. Bringing Up the Empire: Captain Marryats MidshipmenPART II. NOON3. Thackeray's India4. Black Swans; or, Botany Bay Eclogues5. The New Crusades6. The Genealogy of the Myth of the "Dark Continent"7. The Well at Cawnpore: Literary Representations of the Indian Mutiny of 1857PART III. DUSK8. Imperial Gothic: Atavism and the Occult in the British Adventure Novel, 1880-19149. Epilogue: Kurtz's "Darkness" and Conrad's Heart of DarknessNotesIndex N2 - A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, this book maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology ER -