Heart of Darkness, The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire (A Longman Cultural Edition),New

Heart of Darkness, The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire (A Longman Cultural Edition),New

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Product DescriptionFrom Longman's Cultural Editions series, Heart of Darkness, The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire shows the literary and historical context within whichand against whichboth Conrad and Kipling wrote their masterpieces.These works have deeply influenced later writings that deal with the ambitions, complexities, and failures of imperial projects of cultural influence and political control. English, American, South Asian, and African authors from Saul Bellow to Salman Rushdie have worked with and against the models pioneered by Conrad and Kipling in the late Victorian era; their revolutionary impact is illuminated in this text.From the Back CoverFrom Longman's Cultural Editions series,' Heart of Darkness, The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire' shows the literary and historical context within whichand against whichboth Conrad and Kipling wrote their masterpieces. These works have deeply influenced later writings that deal with the ambitions, complexities, and failures of imperial projects of cultural influence and political control. English, American, South Asian, and African authors from Saul Bellow to Salman Rushdie have worked with and against the models pioneered by Conrad and Kipling in the late Victorian era; their revolutionary impact is illuminated in this text.About the AuthorDavid Damrosch is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and past president of the American Comparative Literature Association. He has written widely on world literature from antiquity to the present. His admired books, with lively appeal not only to the academic world but also to general readers, include The Narrative Covenant (1987), What Is World Literature? (2003), and The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007). In addition to editing the Longman Cultural Edition of Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness, Rudyard Kiplings The Man Who Would be King, and Other Works on Empire, he is the inspired genius, founding force, and general editor of the first three editions of the sixvolume Longman Anthology of British Literature and now general editor of The Longman Anthology of World Literature.

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