‘Splendid Little Soldiers’—Invasion, Empire and the Fantasy of Dominance in Saki’s When William Came

This essay is centrally concerned with the ambivalent politics of the last antebellum invasion novel, Saki’s When William Came (1913). Saki radically disrupts the English fantasy of dominance and imagines the end of the British Empire culminating not just in a German invasion but in a lasting occupa...

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Main Author: Petra Rau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2007-03-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/11349
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