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