Patrick Brantlinger

Standard Name: Brantlinger, Patrick

Connections

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Textual Features Dinah Mulock Craik
The figure of John Halifax dominates the entire book, and DMC attempts to represent him both as a model entrepreneur (and thus an individualist) and as a perfect Christian.
In this latter role, he has...
Textual Features Harriet Martineau
Set in the South Sea Islands, Dawn Island depicts a society of cannibalistic and fetishistic primitives who are weaned from human sacrifice (of infants) and set on the road towards becoming men and Christians...

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Texts

Brantlinger, Patrick. Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914. Cornell University Press, 1988.
Brantlinger, Patrick. The Spirit of Reform. Harvard University Press, 1977.