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This novel revolves around a young American actress, Beatrice Brett, and an artist, Bernard Lendon. Set in London, Lendon first meets Beatrice Brett when they are on board a ship bound for Southampton. Their paths cross once more in London. Bernard continues to be captivated by Beatrice. They reunite at a salon, where they help to bring a long-neglected play back to life. Socialist mystic Maddox Challis and Countess Adrian are also captivated by Beatrice. The Countess's fascination with Beatrice is somehow linked to a theory that a stronger spirit may possess a weaker one. Countess Adrian sets her sights on Bernard, she harnesses her knowledge of the occult to attempt to take Beatrice's place and avoid her own predicted death. However, Beatrice wants to be left alone to study acting, but she is torn between two powerful personalities that are attracted to her seeming fragility for different reasons; while Bernard is caught between her and Adrian.
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In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only approximate, yet the "civilizing mission" was viewed as the ultimate justification for imperialism. Similarly, the supposedly unshakeable certainty of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority was routinely undercut by widespread fears about racial degeneration through contact with "lesser" races or concerns that Anglo-Saxons might be superseded by something superior—an even "fitter" or "higher" race or species. Brantlinger traces the development of those fears through close readings of a wide range of texts—including Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Fiji and the Fijians by Thomas Williams, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians by James Bonwick, The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold, She by H. Rider Haggard, and The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Throughout the wide-ranging, capacious, and rich Taming Cannibals, Brantlinger combines the study of literature with sociopolitical history and postcolonial theory in novel ways.
This novel revolves around Thomas Longleat's political crisis and the maturation of his daughter. The author weaves the father's and the daughter's stories together. Thomas Longleat had risen from humble beginnings to become Premier of Leichardt's Land. His political judgment is clouded by passion when he uses his position to spend time with a colleague's wife. His eldest daughter, Honoria, is caught between adolescence and womanhood. She is headstrong, and without a mother to guide her. She rejects every eligible suitor. When she is charmed by Hardress Barrington, a visiting English nobleman and a rising politician loyal to her father. Little did she know that he had no intention of marrying her, the daughter of a self-made man and that he had plans to set her up as his mistress.