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The Rhodes
Colossus
Punch 1892
Alavoine, Fountain sketch for Place de
la Bastille (1814)
(Orientalism)
Girodet, The Burial of Atala
(1813)
Delacroix,
Death of Sardanapalus
(1826)
Delacroix,
Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople
(1840)
Delacroix, Tiger Hunt
(1846) (More
Delacroix)
Gerome, Harem Pool
(1876)
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Key Questions
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- What were the philosophical
underpinnings behind European expansion?
- What is the relationship between
Europe’s changing mode of production/ status in the world and the
values and political/social structures being developed in Europe?
- How were European attitudes towards
non-European peoples reflected in the art, music and literature of the
period?
- To what extent does Conrad argue
against colonialism and imperialism? To what extent is Conrad
simply a product of his time?
- What was the impact of Imperialism
on both the colonizer and the colonized? How was this
expressed?
- How were 19th
century ‘isms’ used by contemporary imperialists?
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Imperialism
Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious
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Imperialism
Art:
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Imperialism
Literature:
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Imperialism
Music:
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Primary Sources:
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Primary Sources:
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Primary Sources:
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Primary Sources:
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- Macaulay,
from "Minute
on Indian Education" (1835)
- Tse-Hue, "Letter of Advice to Queen
Victoria" (1836)
- John Stuart Mill: “On Colonies and Colonization” (1848)
- Wallace, 'Sarawak law'
(1855); The Malay Archipelago
(1869)
- Thomas
Henry Huxley’s letter to Charles Kingsley
(1860)
- Naoroji, "London Speech of 1871"
on India
- Tylor,
from Primitive
Culture (1871)
- Petition of
the Chiefs of Brass Regarding Trade on the Niger, 1877
- Rhodes, Confession of Faith
(1877)
- Gladstone, England's Mission (1878)
- French
Colonialism (Jules Ferry)
- Congress of Berlin
(1885)
- Morel, “The Black Man’s Burden”
- Labouchere, "The Brown Man's Burden"
(1899)
- Chamberlain,
from
"The
True Conception of Empire" (1897)
- Meinertzhagen, "An Embattled Colonial Officer
in East Africa" (1904)
- Pearson, on Social
Darwinism and Imperialism
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Butler, from "Our
Indian Fellow Subjects" (1887)
- Darwin,
excerpts from "On the Origin of Species by
Natural Selection"; (complete text)
(1859) (complete works online);
The Descent of Man
(1871)
- Spencer,
Social Darwinism: "Survival of the Fittest
Applied to Human Kind" (1851); The Man vs. the State
(1884); (at Hanover)
- Huxley,
Lecture
on Evolution and Ethics (1893)
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Kidd, from The
Control of the Tropics (1898)
- Lenin on Imperialism,
the Last Phase of Capitalism
- Hobson, from The Economic Bases of
Imperialsim (1902)
- Fanon,
The
Wretched of the Earth. Conclusion, 1961
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- Trioson, The Burial of Atala (1813)
- Alavoine, Fountain sketch for
Place de la Bastille (1814)
- Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus,
(1826); The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople
(1840); Tiger Hunt
(1846)
- Gerome,
Harem Pool
(1876)
- Gauguin, We
Hail Thee Mary (1891)
- The Rhodes Colossus
Punch (Dec. 10, 1892)
- Imperial Soap
(1899)
- Images of
India
- Displaying the Orient:
"Cleopatra's Needle"
- Picasso, Self-Portrait
(1907)
- Mask, Kete or Mbagani
peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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- Pushkin, The Captain's Daughter
(1836)
- Charlotte
Brontë, from Jane Eyre (1848)
- Burton, The Arabian Nights
(1850) (complete text)
- Flaubert, Salammbo
(1862)
- Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light
Brigade" (1854) (Images)
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Leonowens, from The English Governess at the
Siamese Court (1870)
- Conrad, Heart of Darkness
(1899) (part one,
part two); Short
Stories: "Youth";
"The Secret Sharer";
"The
Lagoon"
- Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King
(1888); “The White Man’s Burden”
(1899); Barrack
Room Ballads (1892-96); Gunga Din
(1892)
- Gilbert and Sullivan, The Mikado
(1885) "When
the English Ruled the Waves" from Iolanthe (1882)
- Wells, War of the Worlds
(1898)
- Newboldt, "Vitai
Lampada";
"Clifton Chapel"
- Browning, "Home-Thoughts, From Abroad"
- Hardy "Drummer Hodge";
"The Darkling Thrush"
(1900)
- Tolstoy, Hadji Murad
(1904)
- Caryl Philips, “The
Pagan Coast”
- Orwell, Burmese Days (1936); Shooting an Elephant (1936)
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- Handel,
Giulio Cesare
(1724)
- Mozart,
Abduction from
the Seraglio (1781)
- Liszt,
Hungarian Rhapsodies (1846-53)
- Verdi, Aida (1871)
- Gilbert and Sullivan, The Mikado
(1885)
- Debussey Piano Music (Chinese
Influence)
- Bizet, The Pearl Fishers
- Ravel, Bolero
- Asche, Chu Chin Chow, a
musical comedy (1916)
- Borodin, from Prince Igor (1890);
overture; In
the Steppes of Central Asia; Polovtsian Dances
- Elgar, The Crown of India
(1912)
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade
(1888) 1. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
2. The Story of the Calendar
Prince
- Puccini, Madame Butterfly
(1904) (Maria Callas sings Death Scene);
Turandot
(1926)
- "Mad Dogs and Englishmen
" (1936) sung by Noel Coward
- British Imperialistic Anthems
- Music
of the Kete or Mbagani peoples, Democratic
Republic of the Congo
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Delacroix, The Women of
Algiers (1834)
Gauguin, We Hail Thee Mary
(1891)
Gaughin, Where Do We Come From? What Are
We? Where Are We Going? (1897)
Picasso, Self-Portrait (1907)
Mask
(kibwabwabwa)
Kete or Mbagani peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 19th-20th c.
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Political,
Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious
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Imperialism Art:
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Imperialism
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Imperialism
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Secondary Sources:
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Secondary Sources:
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Secondary Sources:
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Secondary Sources:
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- Said, from Orientalism (1979)
- Edward Said’s Orientalism and the Study of the Self and the Other in Orwell’s Burmese Days
- Wood, Lost
Paradises (on Said's Culture
and Imperialism) (NYRB 1994)
- Orientalism
(Michigan)
- Edward
Said’s "Orientalism revisited” by Keith Windschuttle
- Colonial
and Post-Colonial Literary Dialogues
- Woods, Bangs
and Whimpers (NYRB 1979) on Coppola's Apocalypse Now
- Romantic Orientalism
(Norton)
- History of the Congo
(Stockton College)
- Hochchild, In
the Heart of Darkness (NYRB
2005)
- Amatoritsero, Conrad
the Bloody Racist: A
cultural criticism of Heart
of Darkness
(2001)
- Achebe, "An
Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness." (1977) ; On Heart of Darkness (1977)
(An Interview with Achebe in "An African Voice",
Atlantic 7-2-2000)
- Davis, "The Value of Teaching From a
Racist Classic" (Chronicle of Higher
Education, 5-19-2006)
- Teisch, "Colonialism
in Soyinka and Conrad" (1990)
- Daily Life in Sierra Leone:
The Sherbro in 1936-37
(UPenn)
- Hochsfield, "Leopold's Congo: A Holocaust
we have yet to comprehend" (Chronicle
of Higher Ed. 2000)
- Urquhart,The
Tragedy of Lumumba (NYRB 2001)
- Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness
(1938)
- Heart
of Darkness -
one of the most influential novels of the 20th century (BBC Radio)
- Kimball, Rudyard
Kipling unburdened (2008)
- Lowry, “Rudyard
and the Raj” (2009)
- 1001 Richard Burton and Shahrazad: both bargaining for life with a thousand and one stories
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