The Crack in the Cornerstone: Victorian Identity Conflicts and the Representation of the Sepoy Mutiny in Metropolitan and Anglo-Indian Novels
In 1897, Hilda Gregg wrote from the pages of Blackwood’s Magazine that “Of all the great events of this century, as they are reflected in fiction, the Indian Mutiny has taken the firmest hold on the popular imagination.” The Mutiny was made a Victorian icon of the “British character”, conveyed by al...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2007-12-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cve/10462 |