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Title

Colonial Fiction

Authors

Richard Ruppel, Chapman UniversityFollow

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Description

An encyclopedia entry about colonial fiction, defined as "fiction set in what was once the colonial world, the world that European powers colonized in the 'Age of Discovery'… In this fiction, typically, white, male protagonists leave Europe as explorers, adventurers, soldiers, traders, administrators, or, occasionally, exiled criminals to encounter a foreign world of jungles, deserts, illnesses, and, especially, peoples and cultures."

ISBN

978-1-4051-9244-6

Publication Date

2010

Publisher

Blackwell

Keywords

colonial fiction, British writers

Disciplines

Literature in English, British Isles | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies

Comments

In Brian Shaffer (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction, volume 1. Dr. Ruppel's chapter begins on page 77.

Recommended Citation

Ruppel, Richard. “Colonial Fiction." Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction. Edited by Brian Shaffer, Vol 1., Blackwell, 2010, pp. 77-81.

Copyright

Blackwell